The Advent Meditations 2021
by Tara Ludwig

The Advent Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Advent. Traditionally offered in a written form, this year The Advent Meditations have been reimagined as audio meditations composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute.

On each of the four Sunday mornings of Advent, you will receive an invitation to explore a traditional Advent scripture, via an e-mail link that will lead you to that week’s audio meditation. The Meditations aim to enrich your experience of Advent not by “adding” something to your busy to-do list, but by helping you to become more alert and awake to how God is laboring in all that you are already doing to prepare for Christmas.

May these meditations be a blessing to you as you await in joyful hope the coming of Emmanuel, “God with us”.

*We acknowledge and thank Kiel Bishoprick, Sound Engineer, for his excellent work in helping create and produce the audio for this podcast.

Week 1: The Tree of Jesse

*Tree of Jesse* by Georgios Klontzas (16th century)
– Hangs in St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mt. Sinai –

Week 2: The Visitation

*The Visitation* (1491) by Domenico Ghirlandaio
– Hangs in The Louvre –

Week 3: Nativity

*Nativity* (1891) by Julius Garibaldi Melchers

Week 4: The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

*The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds* (1834) by Thomas Cole
– Hangs in the Chrysler Museum of Art –

The Faber Fireside Gathering

21 November 2021
Portland, OR

The Fireside Gathering is an annual gathering – on the Sunday that commences Thanksgiving Week – of friends of the Faber Institute. It is at this annual gathering when we explicitly ask that those who are of the Institute help us financially. We never have, and never will, enter into a “fee for service” model, because we pass on to you what we have freely received. It is a joy to rely on God for our future, who gives us our friends to help us.

A Talk by Tara Ludwig:

A Talk by Rick Ganz:

From Traveler to Pilgrim by Rick Ganz
A Talk to the Seattle Women’s Literary & Travel Club
25 October 2021
Seattle, WA

The Higher Pursuits Project Summit

A Talk on Hope in Trauma by Rick Ganz
4 June 2021
Madison, WI

Link to the song “Memories” performed by One Voice Children’s Choir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB6yjGVuzVo

The Lenten Meditations 2021
by Tara Ludwig

The Lenten Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Lent. Traditionally offered in a written form, this year The Lenten Meditations have been reimagined as audio meditations composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute.

The core of these Meditations concern six Friends of Jesus, who, each in turn, were to Jesus a significant comfort and strength during His passion. On each of the six Sunday mornings of Lent, you will receive an invitation to meet with one of these Friends, via an e-mail link that will lead you to that week’s audio meditation.

May the companionship of the Friends be a blessing to you, as it was to Jesus, as you prepare yourself to receive the miracle of Easter.

*Theme music for The Lenten Meditations is “A Beautiful World” by James Angelino Piccolo

Week 1: Mary, the Sister of Lazarus and Martha,
and the Anointing of Jesus

*Christ in the house of Simon the Pharisee* by Philippe de Champaigne

Week 2: The Donkey

Week 3: Simon of Cyrene

*Christ on the way to Calvary* by Titian

Week 4: Veronica

*Jesus Meeting Veronica* by Carlo Carliari

Week 5: The Women

*The Crucifixion* by Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin

Week 6: The Friendship of the Disciple Whom Jesus Loved

*Christ Crucified with the Virgin, Saint John, and Mary Magdalene* by Anthony van Dyck

Continue the conversation about what struck you in these Meditations here on the Faber Collegium, a private online platform exclusively for the Faber Community.
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