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Illuminate: A Guided Advent Journal for Prayer and Meditation Newman This portable deacon stole featuresIf we do not embrace the darkness, writes Fr. John Nepil, we cannot welcome the light. This is the heart of Advent: a season of trustful surrender, renewed receptivity, and silent vigil. It is the time when we wait for the coming of the lightnot just in the Christ child at Christmas, but in the inner illumination of Gods presence in the soul. God, who is conceived in silence and born in poverty, comes again to fill the soul with light. In Illuminate: