Advent invites us to listen deeply and attentively. It is a contemplative listening which Thomas Merton says is “essentially a listening in silence, an expectancy”. As  the Advent season shifts to the “O Antiphons” at this time, let’s take a few moments to cultivate a listening heart as we anticipate with joyful expectation the coming  of Emmanuel, God-with-us.

Br. Daryl Moresco, O.Carm. is the Managing Director of the Center for Carmelite Studies in Washington, DC. Prior to this, Br. Daryl served as Novice Director for the Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary from 2017- 2020 and Director of Pre-Novitiate Formation from 2007-2017. In 2003, he graduated from the Washington Theological Union with a Certificate in Carmelite Studies and an M.A. in Pastoral Studies. Br. Daryl was born in Melbourne Australia and went to the U.S. to study Carmelite Spirituality in 2001.