Advent is a four-week period of preparation that inaugurates the church’s liturgical year. The General Norms for the Liturgical Year and Calendar offer this description: “Advent has a twofold character: as a season to prepare us for Christmas when Christ’s first coming to us is remembered; as a season when that remembrance directs the mind and heart to await Christ’s Second Coming at the end of time.”... More
Advent is a four-week period of preparation that inaugurates the church’s liturgical year. The General Norms for the Liturgical Year and Calendar offer this description: “Advent has a twofold character: as a season to prepare us for Christmas when Christ’s first coming to us is remembered; as a season when that remembrance directs the mind and heart to await Christ’s Second Coming at the end of time.”