Wrote this blog back in 2011. Around that time, there were no options of likes and comments. It’s a gloomy Sunday but I am happy because Advent season is here.
HAPPY NEW YEAR. New Year in the Catholic calendar begins each year with the season of Advent.
It’s the Holy Season of Advent and we’re now celebrating the first Sunday. Every year, we look forward to the coming of Jesus and pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting and sing those beautiful songs of hope and promise.
The Advent season is full of God’s blessings for all of us. He makes us realize and remember to look back at the whole year that is about to end and to look forward to a new and hopeful year that is about to begin. Are we ready to take Him into our hearts? Are we ready to accept Him in our lives? True, we always say time is gold and we should not waste it but we also need to take stock of what is more important, a quiet contemplation, a moment of silence, a minute of giving thanks. Let this be a season of joy for all of us, awaiting a most precious event of the season – a baby born in swaddling cloths to save mankind.
Dreams And Escapes 
Amen.
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🎄🎆🎉
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I love true Advent. Spiritual preparation.
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Yes. How I wish I have Advent candles too. Thanks.
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I also have been pulling up some old posts, some written a decade ago. Beautiful post on Advent, we will be lighting the first candle in our sanctuary this morning.
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Hi Kathy, so nice to see the ritual of lighting candles during this Advent. Here there is a family sponsor every week. Thanks for dropping by.
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In our church also, each week, a family group reads the advent devotion and lights one of the candles.
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We have the same rituals in celebrating the Advent season. There are prayers before lighting the candle for each week.
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The first snow is falling outside my window, Arlene. It is very seasonal of course, but I am hoping it won’t settle.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sometimes I dream of seeing falling snow Pete. We only have two seasons here. The nights are getting longer and colder now.
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It is nice to watch it falling. But when you have to go anywhere, the disruption it causes is so annoying.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Maybe it would be a joy for someone like me who has never seen such. I am imagining a hot cup of tea or coffee while watching from my window.
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Yes, I was drinking hot tea while I watched it falling. 🙂
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Yeay! I’ll have one too in a while🍵
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Wishing you a most joyous advent season, Arlene.
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Thank you so much Merril. Wish you the same.
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May hope and love fill your heart
As you celebrate the time of Advent
May Christ our Lord to you impart
Light and joy — God’s beautiful present!
❤️❤️❤️
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Same to you Deb. May it be a lovely preparation for Christmas.
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Advent blessings, Arlene!!!
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Thanks Virginia.
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Oh, Wow. It is first Advent Sunday. I need to be more mindful of what’s important and celebrate my Faith. Thank you. It’s been a crazy two years and so easy to forget Humanity and Christianity. Time to come Home to God and live his ways. God bless my friend.
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And now it is already December, it is our town fiesta too. Do you know that Cainta is the bibingka capital of the Philippines? That is why we have this Sumbintik Festival, a festival of sweets.
God bless too IT. Thanks.
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Oooh, Bibinka, that’s delicious .
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Oh it is miss mo na?
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