Hope is a Battle Cry | An Action Plan for Finishing Advent Strong

The Gathering Place, a Podcast from Blessed is She

Blessed is She

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Hope is a battle cry, and it can be your battle cry on the spiritual journey. This entire talk by Olivia Spears is such a beautiful gift to the Blessed is She community. We can have hope, especially as this Advent season comes to a close. New here? We're SO glad you're here! Hit that *subscribe* button and the bell to be notified when we upload! SUBSCRIBE to our free daily devotions: https://blessedisshe.net/subscribe/ Check our our FREE RESOURCES for you: https://blessedisshe.net/free-resources/ Catholic Resources + How To Guides: https://blessedisshe.net/catholic-resources-how-to-guides/ Download our FREE study guide: https://blessedisshe.net/study-guide/ Find out more: https://blessedisshe.net/about/ Check out our Shop: https://blessedisshe.net/shop Shop our Amazon favs: https://www.amazon.com/shop/blessedisshe Blessed is She exists for any woman who wants to radically follow Jesus through a vibrantly Catholic life every single day. We create beautiful and accessible resources, products, and experiences to foster community and deepen faith, both online and in person. We invite you into this community, no matter where you are on your walk with Christ. You belong here.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello everyone and welcome to the Blessed As She Advent gathering.
0:07.0	My name is Olivia Spears and I am just so thrilled and happy to be with you for this event.
0:14.0	You have been on my mind and heart a lot these past few weeks and months. And I'm just really overwhelmed in
0:24.3	prayer every time I think of you. God's great love for you and his delight in you. And so I'm just so
0:31.0	excited to be with you and to talk about the Lord during this beautiful season of Advent.
0:38.2	So thank you for spending your very valuable time with us today.
0:44.8	Tonight, friends, we get to contemplate the virtue of hope.
0:50.1	Advent is a season of hope.
0:54.1	Those of you who are enjoying the Advent devotional from Blessed
0:57.7	as She right now know that this season brings us a thrill of hope, right? And the author, Liz,
1:05.7	Liz Kelly, she's done such a beautiful job of showing us how the thrill of hope doesn't necessarily mean sparkles
1:14.8	in a perfect life. Rather, hope offers us God himself, and he is the object of all our desire,
1:24.7	the object of all our affection and elation he is the reason that we can rejoice as a world
1:32.8	even if we are weary so in that spirit let's pray together name and the father and the son of the
1:41.0	holy spirit amen lord jesus we love you and we live Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit, amen.
1:46.1	Lord Jesus, we love you.
1:54.5	And we live this Advent season of waiting and preparation with a lot of joyful anticipation, Jesus.
2:00.7	Because we know that you always come into our hearts when we invite you there.
2:04.0	You stand at the door and knock.
2:12.7	And so Jesus, I just pray for the intercession of your blessed mother, that we would open the doors of our hearts to you.
2:19.4	Wide open, Lord, especially those parts that maybe have lost hope that are feeling discouraged or defeated or disappointed Lord that we may know we are not
2:24.9	dwelling in those rooms alone but that you desire to come and dwell there with
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