• Faith

    Remembering Advent in a World Focused on Christmas

    Thanksgiving has passed and already I find myself turning on my favorite Christmas songs and dreaming of decorating the tree. Christmas decorations have been selling in stores for weeks and lit up houses have been speckling neighborhoods since well before Thanksgiving. But as I stand here with arms open wide, ready to embrace the season, I find myself wondering, am I forgetting something? In our eagerness for Christmas, something equally as beautiful often gets lost. That something is Advent. Advent, often called a “little Lent,” is the Catholic season covering the four Sundays before Christmas. It is considered a penitential season, a time of prayer and fasting as we eagerly…