Hope the celebration of advent is producing a fruitful Christmas season. Now that it is the Christmas season we have to try to stay in the spirit even though society wants Christmas to be over. Our family tries to stay in the spirit by still playing music and movies of the season. Since during advent we lit a candle each week in anticipation of Christmas, we continue to light a candle before dinner, but it is a white candle for the Christmas season. We also use the reading from the Liturgy of the Hours instead of the advent candle prayer. Praying the Liturgy of the Hours and the daily readings for Mass is the best way to stay focused on this season of Christmas.
Christmas
Advent is here
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We have started the Advent Season and We need to take care not to make it into Christmas as the rest of society does. As Christians we are in the world but not of the world, so we need to not let the society force us to abandon our faith. Christmas starts on Christmas Day and ends on The Baptism of the Lord. Our family loosly came up with a tradition, mainly by my behest, to put up the lights and tree around Gaudete Sunday since it is a feast of rejoiceful anticipation of Christmas. We also try to keep Christmas music and movies at a minimum during Advent.
To be able to fully celebrate any feast we need the time to prepare. We need that time of getting ready. When a couple gets married they have a time where they need to prepare themselves for the biggest moment of their lives that is coming. So too, we need a time to prepare for the celebration of one of the biggest, best events that ever happened in the world. The incarnation of our Lord and Savior.