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Season of Glad Songs | David Denny and Tessa Bielecki

Season of Glad Songs | David Denny and Tessa Bielecki

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Imagine a quiet Advent sitting beside a crackling fire preparing for a festive and sacred Twelve Days of Christmas. The authors take you there and beyond. There's something for everyone: young or old, whether you go to church or not. The tone is mystical and down-to-earth. Poetry, illustrations and essays, rituals and blessings, prayers and practical advice, even book, music and movie reviews help you celebrate a soulful season of glad songs, from the dark stillness of Advent through Christmas, the New Year and Epiphany, on to the welcome light of a candle on a cold February night. 

About the Authors


David Denny

David M. Denny describes himself as “poet, priest, and desert rat.” After graduating from the University of Arizona, intending to become a journalist or scholar of interreligious studies, he made a retreat at the Spiritual Life Institute in Sedona, Arizona. His original plan for graduate studies was interrupted by becoming a contemplative Carmelite monk for thirty years.  

He was ordained to the priesthood in 1980 and fulfilled his journalism dream by editing the community’s Desert Call quarterly magazine. He continues to serve as a priest through Cross Catholic Outreach, a ministry providing material and spiritual support to the poorest of the poor in over thirty countries.  

Since co-founding the Desert Foundation with Tessa Bielecki in 2005, he fulfills his call to interspiritual dialogue through his writings. When not at his computer, you will find him biking along the Santa Cruz River, ambling among the Saguaros, or shooting hoops in the early hours across the street from his “urban hermit” apartment. 


Tessa Bielecki

Tessa Bielecki represents three rich streams in the Christian contemplative tradition: Carmelite, Celtic, and the spirituality of the Desert Mothers and Fathers. For over fifty years she lived in solitary wilderness hermitages in the U.S., Canada, and Ireland, in deserts, mountains and woods.

She was the Mother Abbess of the Spiritual Life Institute, a monastic community of both men and women for almost forty years, left in 2005 and co-created the Desert Foundation. Tessa is a seasoned retreat facilitator, a forty-year veteran of inter-religious dialogue, and the author of several major works on St. Teresa of Avila, desert spirituality, prayer, contemplative life, and Christmas.

Now living as an “urban hermit” in Tucson, Arizona, Tessa is both poetic and practical, known for an earthy mysticism grounded in the ordinary. She is currently writing a memoir and creating a podcast with David Denny called Fire and Light. Visit tessabielecki.com and sandandsky.org to learn more.


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