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Eight days in, how has your Advent been so far?
How are you practicing your faith in it?
What have you learned about it from our class time?
What images or ideas are helpful for you as you practice and celebrate this Advent?
ALSO - Add a photo from the internet which shows "recipe" "what gives you hope" or "bells"

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Screenshot_2020-12-07 2020 InstaAdvent Photo Challenge Busted Halo

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Eight days of Advent have been great. My family has decorated the house and put our Christmas tree up. I have learned about the Advent season and how it is a time to prepare for Jesus' birth. I also learned about St. Ambrose and how he affected the church. The images that are helpful for me during the Advent season is the Advent Calendar and candles.

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So far, in the second week of Advent, I have been very excited for what is to come. Our house is decorated with Christmas decorations, as we await for December 25. I am practicing my faith in it as I continue to pray for the arrival of baby Jesus, especially more than usual in this different year. In class, I have learned that Advent is simply about patiently waiting, and not yet celebrating until Christmas arrives. Images or ideas that are helpful are the candles, which symbolize the four weeks of advent.

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the 8 days have been nice with our family putting up our tree and visiting my grandpa. in my faith me and my family prayed a decade of the rosary each day. the bells get me in the Christmas spirit.

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My Advent has gone well so far. Since covid started my family has mostly been watching Mass online from a really nice Church in Chicago, which we did yesterday too. We also put up a manger scene in my front yard which we do every year. I have learned about how we should be celebrating and appreciating Advent more. Seeing a manger scene helps me celebrate Advent.

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Advent so far has been pretty good this year. School has been less stressful without finals so I have been able to focus on Advent more. I am practicing my faith by not worrying about anything besides what really matters during this advent season. An idea that is helping me this advent season is "don't stress the small stuff."

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So far, my Advent has been pretty good. I've learned that Advent is a time of preparation for the birth of Jesus. I feel like the candles are a good image/symbol for me when celebrating Advent. They help me understand what part of Advent we are in and what it means.

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My Advent has been very good so far. All of our Christmas decorations are up and we continue to go to Church every Sunday. I have learned that Advent is a time of preparation and hope for the coming of Jesus. An image of a star like the one above the manger is helpful for me because shows to stay focused on God.

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So far advent has been very good for me and my family we have decorated and we have been praying everyday in anticipation of christ

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So far, my Advent has been meaningful, because I have been following along on the Busted Halo quote advent calendar. I have been reflecting every night, and I have prayed to Mary a lot because of our class discussions. As I celebrate and prepare for advent, music has helped me to feel Christ even more during this season.

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Advent for me has been doing pretty well so far. My family room is already set up with our Christmas tree and other decorations. I learned that people celebrate Advent in different ways, but we all prepare for Jesus' birth. I sometimes look at Advent candles or Christmas themed pictures to get in the Advent spirit.

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Advent has been fine, simply preparing for Christmas. I like leaving about the "O"s in Emmanuel song. The advent calendar helps me keep track of time during advent.

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advent this year has been nice, my family has decorated for christmas and it has really been getting me into a good christmas spirit. some of my favorite images to celebrate are the advent calendars we have.

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My advent has not been the best it could be so far but it has still been very decent. I have been praying and preparing for Christmas through putting up a tree and some lights on the outside of my house. The image of the four candles really helps me realize Advent as a whole is here and that I should be preparing and praying more frequently.

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So far my advent has been well. I have been practicing my faith by going to mass and prayer before every meal. I have learned that it is so much more than just Christmas for one day it is almost whole month of celebration.

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My advent so far has been good. My family has started to prepare for Christmas by putting up decorations and our tree. I have learned in class more about the song O come Emanuel. It is cool to know that there is such a deep meaning in the song and it isn't just random. I think the Advent wreath is helpful to me because it is showing me how close we are to Christmas

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My advent has been good so far, I have participated in it by going to Church and praying. In class I have learned that Advent is really important. Ideas to help celebrate advent are ideas about how you are preparing to let Jesus into your heart.

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My Advent is going pretty well, my family has been sitting around the table more and talking and hanging out together. I look at Christmas themed pictures to get into the Advent spirit and get in the right place mentally.

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My Advent has been pretty good so far. My family went to a farm and got ur Christmas tree, but we haven't decorated it yet. We are a little behind, but I think we are going to et Advent calendars started. We have been going to Mass and we will try to go to Reconciliation soon as a family as well.

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Eight days in and I Honestly don't know anymore, this year has been so much waiting for everything to get back to normal, or at least stop falling apart, it's nice to have that waiting be normal for this time of year, we're all just waiting for this year to end and hopefully we all get to  have that waiting payoff, by Christmas time things could be taking turn for the better, and one way or another things will stop getting worse around then as there  gets a point where there's not much left to loose control of.
- Hopeful sunrise
-L

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Advent has been very peaceful, but I have not really been practicing my faith in these past few weeks. An image that help to celebrate advent are the 3 purple and 1 pink candle.

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Advent is going well. My family and I put all our decoration up around the house and we have been able to spend a lot of time together doing that. I have learned how advent fully prepares us for Jesus' birth and how to embrace this season more.

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So far my Advent has been great. My family and I put up the Christmas decorations and Advent candles. I have learned in class that Christmas is a whole month of celebration. Candles are an image that are helpful in Advent because for me they are very symbolic for this season.

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My Advent has been well. My family has decorated for Christmas by putting up our tree and other decorations around the house. We have also been keeping up to date on our advent calendar - which is a helpful symbol of advent. One interesting thing I've enjoyed learning about in class is differing traditions through different countries around the world.

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This year for advent my family is participating in a Jesse tree through my parish where you decorate an ornament to coordinate with a bible passage that leads up to Christmas and you make 25 for you and the other members participating. Each day you put a certain ornament on the tree and read a bible passage.

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My Advent this year has been really good so far. Me and my family have started our Advent calendars and are really looking forward to Christmas.

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My advent is going well, I am seeing just how important it is to be kind and caring to others in this time of year. I am practicing my faith in the Advent season so far by taking time out to sit silently (as silent as possible is the better phrasing) and listening to hear God's direction as we prepare for Christmas. I am learning more and more about the traditions practiced around the world among families and communities to celebrate advent. The images of just people extending that helping hand is very hopeful. I will admit that it is kind of disheartening that people only really care around Christmas time. Every other time it seems we are all at each other's throats day in and day out. 

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My advent is going well, I am seeing just how important it is to be kind and caring to others in this time of year. I am practicing my faith in the Advent season so far by taking time out to sit silently (as silent as possible is the better phrasing) and listening to hear God's direction as we prepare for Christmas. I am learning more and more about the traditions practiced around the world among families and communities to celebrate advent. The images of just people extending that helping hand is very hopeful. I will admit that it is kind of disheartening that people only really care around Christmas time. Every other time it seems we are all at each other's throats day in and day out. 

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Advent has been very good. My family started doing an advent calendar for the first time.
I have learned more about how Advent is a month long thing and not just one or two days.
As I practice Advent, an advent calendar helps because it makes it easier to keep track.

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My advent has been going well so far.
My family has started to decorate. I have learned more about advent prepares us for Jesus' birth.