This year’s edition of Pax Christi USA’s Advent reflection booklet, Entering the night of peace: Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2025, features reflections for Sundays and Holy Days from Advent through Epiphany written by Cameron Bellm and Flora x. Tang.
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Cameron is a writer whose work has been shaped by Ignatian spirituality and Catholic social teaching. She combines her love of language with a deeply-rooted spirituality to compose prayers, poems, essays, and devotionals linking our modern lives with our ancient faith. She is especially devoted to writing at the intersections of creativity, spirituality, mysticism and activism. Her work has been featured in America, National Catholic Reporter, Outreach, and Catholic Women Preach. She frequently writes about creativity and spirituality for Jesuit Media Lab and many other outlets. Her first book, The Sacrament of Paying Attention: How Writers, Artists, and Mystics Can Lead Us into Sacred Human Communion, will be published by Eerdmans in 2026. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children. Find more at www.cameronbellm.com.
Flora, a member of the Pax Christi USA Young Adult Caucus, is a doctoral candidate in theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she writes and researches about post-traumatic theology, queer theology, and decolonial Asian theology. She has previously worked as a hospital chaplain, a campus ministry fellow, and a service-learning program coordinator for college students. Her theology and preaching draw from her complex faith journey to and within Catholicism: from becoming Catholic at age 19 after living and serving with Catholic sisters, to deconstructing her faith while living in Palestine, to discovering her own queer Catholic expressions of faith. Flora is committed to reimagining God’s love while standing on the margins of the Catholic faith.
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Excerpt from the first Sunday of Advent, November 30:
Flora writes:
Christ’s urgency is … the opposite of the self-serving urgency that today’s “grind culture” offers us. Rather, the urgency and hope of the Advent season is a call to pray for others and love our neighbors with great urgency in a time of great uncertainty in our world. We do not know when God’s second coming would be, our gospel reminds us. But even more immediately, we also do not know what will happen next in our families, in our country, or in our world. We do not when it would be too late for us to prevent yet another tragedy, war, authoritarian regime rise, or humanitarian crisis in the world. Amid these ongoing and impending crises in our world, Christ calls us during this season of Advent to love and to build peace with radical urgency, and to continue to stay awake and not look away from those who are suffering. …
In our already anxious-inducing, deadline-driven world, how might Christ’s message of urgency offer us not additional burdens to bear, but a different hope upon which to set our eyes? …
Excerpt from the second Sunday of Advent, December 7:
Cameron writes:
What today’s readings and Pope Leo’s words call us to, I think, is the engagement of our sacred imagination. We have to boldly envision the world we want to bring into being. We have to speak it into existence, create it with the work of our hands and our own hearts, in communion with God, the author of peace.
Discouragement is a natural occasional stop along the road in the journey of speaking and acting prophetically, and it’s okay to pass through it when we gaze upon all the suffering inflicted by our government and others, the inequality that gilds the spoons of the few and leaves the bowls of many empty. Our broken hearts hum at the same frequency as God’s.
But we are continually invited to partner with God in setting things aright, in making the paths straight, not in some pie-in-the-sky hope that things will improve on their own, but in rolling up our sleeves and being part of the work of putting flesh on hope. …
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