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What is your  previous experience with Advent?              How do you plan to celebrate Advent 2021?  

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What is your  previous experience with Advent?              How do you plan to celebrate Advent 2021?  

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I think during the Advent season my family and I do a good job of praying more, preparing for Christmas time and helping others. Even though it will be different this year with everything going on I plan to celebrate Advent 2021 by praying a little more each day and bringing myself closer to Christ.

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I have never really celebrated advent because I'm not catholic, but my school does and we used to have mass every Wednesday. I try to be a better person, because Christmas is the best and I want good presents from Santa, but i also try to give up something like a food or an electronic.

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In the past, my family has not really done a whole lot for Advent except for lighting the candles on the Advent wreath. This year, I'm going to try and slow down to really take in the full beauty of Advent and not rush into Christmas. To celebrate Advent 2021, I am doing a couple of devotionals and also trying to pray more throughout the day and keep my heart open for Jesus.

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my family doesnt do anything for advent my only experience with celebrating advent is lighting the candles at school

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In the past, me and my family would attend mass every Sunday. Next year I will be doing the same

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My family doesn't do too much during advent except decorate our house with Christmas things. We do go to the food bank once during advent and volunteer there. We are doing that again this year and hopefully we will start to pray more as a family this advent. We also go to church together, but this year we watch it.

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My previous experience with advent has been going to mass every Sunday and that Sunday night having a family dinner and lighting the candle for that week. This year my family has stopped going to mass because of Covid, but I do believe we will still have our Sunday family dinners and light the corresponding candle with the week.

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My family and I do a good job of celebrating Advent. We have an Advent wreath and light the proper candles every night at dinner. In the past I have also done advent journals through school.

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In past years, we have celebrated Advent by decorating the house for Christmas and lighting an Advent wreath at every meal. I plan on celebrating Advent 2020 by focusing more on the meaning of the Christmas season. I think that this is exactly what we need this year. Christmas feels like a normal thing amongst all the changes 2020 has brought.

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In the past, my family usually has a huge get together with all of my cousins and 2nd cousins on Christmas for dinner. There is usually around 60 of us total. This year, that can obviously not happen, so we will probably do a small get together with just my immediate family.

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My family doesn't do much for advent. the only thing we do for advent is decorate and do to a Sunday sermon. My family plans to celebrate advent by decorating the house and going to a Sunday sermon.

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In the past, my family always has an Advent wreath, which we light together. Our parish also gives out these little blue booklets with prayers in them that we read before lighting the candles. My mom and I go to Taize, too. Our plans for this Advent are going to be pretty similar, though our parish is not hosting Taize because of Coronavirus.

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In the past my family and I have lit candles and go to mass on sundays. This year it will be different because we have chosen to not go to mass.

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My family tries to do lots of family prayer during Advent by doing a novena, following the Jesse tree, lighting the Advent candles at dinner on Sundays, decorating the house for Advent and preparing our hearts for Christmas. We really try to make Advent a time to grow closer to Christ and prepare for His coming.

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For advent my family has several advent wreaths. We also have made some and we have unique ones that move. We also put up a nativity scene once advent starts.

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In past advents, my family has gone to church and my brothers and I light my grandparent's advent wreath. This year, getting to church has become a little more difficult for us. I found an advent wreath in our Christmas box this year and I plan on setting it up and helping my little brothers light it.

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In past advents, my family has gone to church, or we celebrate in reflection together at home. We light our candles and pray together. This year, with church, it is a little difficult, so we have to go with other alternatives. I found a wreath that I plan to set

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my previous experience with advent is giving something u for 40 days and becoming closer with god

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typically i go to weekly mass during advent. I also spend much time with my family especially our immediate family during advent. However with the given circumstances many of these actions we do during advent are this year. I believe 2021 will follow the same route of limited activities. In perpetration for this I have decided to due much use what would be advent to do much self refection. I fell like in the long run this will fell just as important to me as advent. As i get to seek god on my own terms. Wil it will be difficult I believe it will allow me to become closer to God.

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My previous experiences with advent were going to mass praying as a family and hanging out with my relatives. I plan to celebrate advent this year by praying, being with my family, and setting up decorations to celebrate.

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I usually spend Advent going to Mass with my family. We celebrate by putting up decorations and the Nativity. Each year I spend Christmas Eve with my dad's side of the family, and Christmas Day with my mom's side of the family. We also attend Mass as a family on Christmas Eve. Advent is my favorite time in the Liturgical Calendar because I enjoy how everyone is very happy.

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My family celebrated Advent in the past by going to Mass and witnessing a new candle being lit each week. We would also have Advent calendars. This year, we still do go to Mass, and will celebrate Advent by praying together and witnessing the candles being lit each week.

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For advent my family and I usually get everyone together and go to mass, but since we cant do that this year we plan to spend time together with just our immediate family. My family also has the younger kids in the family make an advent wreath every year that we light at family dinners.