| The text is a wonderful presentation of all that is both Advent and Christmas. |
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| Extend the holiday season by celebrating the Sundays of Advent through the entire month of December. |
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| The season has taken on a spirit of somber yet joyful preparation for the Advent of Christ. |
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| Among them, that continent is Rome re-born and one of the necessary conditions for the Advent of Christ. |
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| Our introduction to Matthew and to the Advent season is as compelling as Luke's conclusion. |
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| All the children in 1st class come to the 12 noon Mass on the four Sundays of Advent. |
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| This year, about 22,000 will attend the Advent, carol and Christmas services. |
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| The text is a wonderful reflection on all that has happened during the season of Advent and Christmas Eve and Day. |
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| As we write this, the church is preparing for the Advent and Christmas seasons. |
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| What a strange and powerful story it is we have to share in these days of Advent and Christmas and Epiphany. |
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| It is hoped to involve all age groups during the Advent and Christmas ceremonies. |
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| Readings for Advent and Christmas contains daily meditations for this season of waiting and hope. |
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| Rose expresses joy that half a penitential season is over, and is used on the 3rd Sunday of Advent and 4th Sunday of Lent. |
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| May you find peace and rest at this, the beginning of the Advent season. |
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| I truly think my husband couldn't care less if the kids had no Advent calendar. |
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| The retired chemist will have plenty to reflect on for his final address on Advent Sunday. |
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| With the approach of Advent, we begin to prepare for the new covenant as issued in the birth of Jesus. |
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| Have on hand the baptismal font, pitcher of water, the Advent wreath and matches. |
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| So how do we preach apocalyptic texts and Advent pericopes so that people will listen? |
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| An Advent programme is being planned for the coming weeks with a special Youth Mass being organised for Advent. |
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| The licence gave permission to marry after one asking of the banns, which were forbidden from Advent Sunday to 13 January. |
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| Throughout the weeks of Advent the news has been thick with rumours of war. |
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| At two San Francisco Bay Area churches, Advent is well under way. |
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| I'm sure I can get him to understand before the Advent season begins. |
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| This Advent season, let the focus be on preparing to tell this story. |
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| It lambasted the organization for not allowing staff to put up Advent calendars. |
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| We saw a lonely cabin, lights radiating from within like an Advent calendar. |
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| The future 30 per cent discount promotions in the Advent calendar have not yet been published on the site. |
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| All people need to do is click on the Advent calendar for the day and see what offer lies behind the window. |
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| Shoppers are becoming immune to the annual invitation to spend all their cash before the first window on the Advent calendar has been opened. |
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| Our friend is in the throes of producing an inspiration-filled Advent calendar and asked us to contribute something. |
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| The historic City Hall Bonn is transformed into an outsized Advent calendar, where every day a window is lit. |
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| Concealed doors and traps tend to fly open unexpectedly like windows on an Advent calendar. |
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| About half the population will listen to or view the Queen's speech, buy a Christmas tree and have an Advent calendar hanging in the house. |
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| Christmas cards, wrapping paper, Advent calendars and decorations are on sale in the shop. |
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| Broke out the Advent calendars this morning and got the usual grumpy reaction about the lack of chocolates in them. |
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| Tomorrow is another primary school Xmas lesson and we're going to be making Advent calendars. |
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| These days, you can't find an Advent calendar that isn't stuffed full of cheap chocolate with a picture of cartoon characters on it. |
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| She will open the first door of the Advent Calendar during morning service on Advent Sunday, November 30th. |
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| On this, the morning of the first Advent Sunday, I lack the will to go home. |
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| Old Church traditions and folklore warned against marrying unpropitiously, and forbade marriage during Lent and Advent. |
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| The lessons appointed for the first Sunday of Advent, however, point not to the nativity, but to the Second Coming. |
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| Today we normally only hear the Benedictus in Advent and Lent. |
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| As we enter the season of Advent, we are reminded of the Nativity and of one of the most famous migrant families of all. |
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| She is loving her Advent calendar, mostly because she gets a little chocolate every day out of it, but also she likes searching for the right number for the day. |
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| The bringing of a warm light to the dark of Advent met with an enthusiastic reception among the population. |
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| Leslie's Advent calendar is beautiful, charming and delightful. |
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| The ancient Advent collect still echoes deep within my soul. |
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| Priory has now issued two collections of his anthems, the first celebrating Easter to Trinity, this one devoted mainly to Advent as far as the Passion. |
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| The healing Mass ended with the passing of candlelight from the Advent candle to each parishioner. |
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| Saint Andrew's Day marks the beginning of the traditional Advent devotion of the Saint Andrew Christmas Novena. |
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| One way to approach your Christmas movie selection is to look to the Sunday readings and responsorial psalms of Advent as a guide. |
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| When you're counting down the days to the Lord's birth, nothing is quite as exciting as opening up a new slot on your Advent calendar. |
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| Everyone knows about Advent calendars, but there's another way to mark the days leading up to Christmas. |
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| Advent is a time to turn that darkness to light, that experience of hell to heaven, the despair to the hope that a decent life can be a reasonable goal. |
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| There are few scripture texts that better capture the spirit of the Advent and Christmas seasons than this one from the Prologue of John's Gospel. |
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| The number 8 signifies the sentence for the impious and the reward for the righteous, and symbolizes accomplishment and the Advent, hence its Marian nature. |
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| Lord, during this Advent, we seek to be in solidarity with those with whom we live as Marists, with those whose lives are hidden in pain and with you, Child waiting to be born in the stable. |
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| Targeted for those who want to get smart instead of chunky, Hybe's modern day Advent Calendar will replace the holiday season's daily treats with food for thought. |
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| All other advent calendars produced by Cadbury Trebor Bassett, including the standard Cadbury Dairy Milk Advent Calendar, are unaffected by the recall. |
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| Consequently, having decided to divide her daughter's trousseau into two parts, a lesser and a larger, the Princess eventually consented to have the wedding before Advent. |
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| The range spans Advent calendars, activity bags, mugs, and various shapes, sizes and combinations of chocolate, sweets and biscuits and tree decorations. |
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| Preceding the miraculous events linked with afterlife is the Advent of the Messiah, also independently listed among Maimonides' Thirteen as a tenet of faith. |
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| From the 14th century they were used as processional songs, particularly at Advent, Easter and Christmas, and to accompany religious mystery plays. |
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| The Advent 'From Darkness to Light services are the best known. |
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