Welcome!! It’s the Advent Season and one my girls and I look forward to each year.
We are preparing our hearts for the Nativity and for Jesus’ return.
Over the years, we have done different things for Advent Sundays. We have made polymer clay candles, perler bead candles and real candles on a variety of wreath styles. It’s so much fun and I enjoy watching my girls create their Advent wreaths that this year I decided to make one too. And it’s made this yearly holiday tradition so much more special.
“It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.”
— Pope Benedict XVI
Week One: Hope
The word advent means “expectation.” What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.
— Louie Giglio
Read about Advent of Hope here
Week Two: Peace
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
— John 14:27
Read about Advent of Hope here
Week Three: Joy
“No uncertainty or fear can take away the joy of Christ for one who trusts in God.”
— Abp John Wong
Week Four: Love
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[a]31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] There is no commandment greater than these.”
— Mark 12:30-31
Read about Advent of Love here
Christmas Eve: Christ Candle
The Advent Journey:
Hope becomes Peace
Peace becomes Joy
Joy becomes Love
Love becomes Christ
— Bobby Schuller
Read about Advent of Christ’s Birth — COMING DECEMBER 24
