The calendar is available here.

The calendar features a Nativity scene decorated with numbered windows that are opened by the click of a mouse. Behind each window visitors will find a photograph from the crèche exhibit and links to a meditation, a carol, an audio reflection on the daily readings and a giving opportunity.

"We designed the calendar four years ago, primarily as a way for office workers to observe the season of Advent," said Jim Naughton, canon for communications and advancement for the Diocese of Washington. "But we've found that teens and families really enjoy it, too."

Some visitors are drawn by the more whimsical figures from the crèche exhibit, Naughton said, others by the opportunity to use the web to enrich their prayer life.

"Each year we try to offer them a little more," Naughton said. "The audio features are new this year. I think people are going to love listening to Trinity's choir, and Lonnie Lacy, the chaplain at Georgia Southern University, was kind enough to let us link into his podcasting project."

The calendar includes contributions from throughout the church. The Nativity scene featured in the calendar was taken from the Rev. Ed Mullins' photograph of a tapestry that hangs in Christ Church Cranbrook, in the Diocese of Michigan where Mullins is rector.

The meditations were chosen by Vicki Black, a deacon in the Diocese of Maine, who keeps the Speaking to the Soul weblog on the Episcopal Café website.

Many of the giving opportunities are drawn from the Episcopal Relief and Development Gifts for Life catalog.