This Advent, we invite you to join us in a meaningful journey of accompaniment with refugees and displaced families around the world. In our downloadable four-week reflection guide, each week is grounded in one of the traditional Advent themes—Hope, Peace, Joy, Love—and framed through the lens of the lived experience of our refugee brothers and sisters. The resource is designed for use by individuals, families, parish groups or faith communities as you prepare for the coming of Christ and open your hearts to welcome the stranger.

What’s Inside

• A brief introduction exploring how the Advent season and the Jubilee theme “Pilgrims of Hope” invite us to walk alongside displaced people.

• Week 1: Hope (30 November 2025) – reflection, prayer, action inspired by a refugee story.

• Week 2: Peace (7 December 2025) – reflections on building right relationships, inclusion and welcoming.

• Week 3: Joy (14 December 2025) – celebrating unexpected life, resilience and community.

• Week 4: Love (21 December 2025) – making love visible in action, welcome and solidarity.

• Practical actions and journaling prompts to carry you beyond Advent into a lived commitment.

Why Use This Guide?

• It aligns your Advent observance with the mission of JRS and its accompaniment of refugees worldwide.

• It provides not just reflection but concrete actions to make the waiting meaningful—turning Advent into active welcome and solidarity.

• It works for a variety of settings: individual daily use, family reflection, parish small groups, or faith-based ministry.

• It emphasizes that Christ comes among us in the vulnerable, the displaced, the stranger—so our Advent can become a pilgrimage of encounter and transformation.

Download Instructions

Click the link below to download the full PDF (17 pages). Save, print or distribute in your community.

Download the 2025 JRS Advent Guide Here (Eng)

Download the 2025 Advent Guide Here (Esp)