Christmas season
Prepare for Christmas with Advent wreath and Advent calendar activities, along with information about St. Nicholas, Advent prayers and more.
Today at a Glance
Saturday, November 7, 2009
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Franciscan Communications: YouTube for Advent

Advent Radio Retreat
Franciscan Radio encourages you to put aside today’s cares and worries, and make a “radio retreat”—online. Using the Windows Media Player, Real Player or any MP3 player, including Apple’s iPod, take this opportunity to focus clearly on what God is saying to you this Advent.

Kicking the Worry Habit
As we prepare our spirits for the season of Advent, the first item of clutter is the worry habit, says Susan Rowland, author of Make Room for God: Clearing Out the Clutter. She offers antidotes to help us get our house in order to welcome the coming of God our lives.

What Are We Waiting For?
The celebration of Christmas is not a sentimental waiting for a baby to be born, but much more an asking for history to be born, according to Franciscan Father Richard Rohr, author of Preparing for Christmas With Richard Rohr: Daily Meditations for Advent. Catholics, he says, do the gospels no favor when making Jesus, the eternal Christ, into a perpetual baby, a baby able to ask for little or no adult response.

The True Gift of Christmas
From St. Anthony Messenger magazine
A little boy in an airport rekindles a priest’s love for the holiday season.

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