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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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My advent has been very nice and peaceful. I have gone to Mass every weekend, and been lighting our advent candles for dinner every night.

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So far my advent has been great. I haven't been able to go to mass yet, but I have been able to have my family Sunday dinners where we light a candle and pray an advent prayer. I have learned in class about the meaning of the song O come Emmanuel and how it relates to advent and the coming of Christ. Songs that we go over in class and listen to help me celebrate advent while in school, which is really nice.

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My advent so far has been good. I have gone to Church both Sunday's in advent and the priest's homilies have been very good this advent. From class, I have learned more about how God is like a helicopter who desires to land in our hearts.

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My advent is going well. I have not been going to mass. My family decorated our house for Christmas.

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My Advent has been nice so far, I have been doing the 33 Days to Morning Glory and a couple devotionals, so those have been helping me grow in my faith. I enjoy learning about the roots of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" in class, it's one of my favorite hymns so it is cool to learn about it. And I think the idea of joy in all circumstances has been helping me celebrate this advent.

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My advent has been very well we have my whole house decorated for christmas and we have our lights up outside. We have advent themed things throughout our house as well.

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My Advent has being going well. I practice my faith by doing reflections from an Advent book that my mom gave me, and going to Mass with my family.

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My advent has been good so far. I found this nursing home in Quebec that asked for people to send letters since they cannot have visitors for Christmas. I am excited at the idea of making them happy with a personalized letter--something I find to be a theme in the season of Advent. Please enjoy this lovely photo of Freddie Mercury, who gives me hope.

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My Advent hasn't been too great. So I've been praying every night.

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My Advent has been going very well. Due to covid my family has not gone to mass at this time of year as we usually do. We still light candles to stay with our faith during these times.

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My advent has gone very nice. My family has done candles every night and we have gone to mass almost every Sunday. We have also been doing more family things together.

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My advent has been moving slow, but good so far. We have not put up decorations yet, because we are currently in the process of moving into a new house. So we have not had time to do so, but once we settle, we will eventually put them up for the Christmas season. What my family and I do, on a regular basis, is making cookies and baking cookies. What I have learning during our class time, is that it is one of the most important event before Jesus's second coming, so that we know we know how to prepare for him, and when to do so.

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My advent has been good so far but very different from past Advents. This year I have been practicing my faith by praying. I learned that there are a lot of Advent hymns that I was unaware of.

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My advent has been very good so far! I still hope to focus more on the coming of Christ and not making it all about the stuff to do during advent. My family and I have been reflecting and doing the Jesse Tree and I am reading an advent reflections book! I hope to do more as well to truly be ready for Christ!

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my advent has been good so far we have the whole house decorated and nothing has been to different from last year

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My Advent has been going very well so far. We add a flame to our lego Advent Wreath every Sunday and read a short Advent reflection before dinner. I learned that the Catholic New Year starts on the first Sunday of Advent. I like to think of the Advent wreath, which I think is the best countdown!

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My advent has been very eventful but also peaceful at times. I have been spending more time with my family and praying.

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My Advent wasn't the greatest in the beginning, since I was sick with pneumonia all last week. But it's getting better. I'm feeling a lot better, and my family continues to go to Mass every week. In class I learned all about the song O Come Emmanuel. I also got an Advent calendar this year. What keeps me hopeful is knowing that Christmas break will be here soon, and then the real Christmas celebrations will begin.

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My advent has been interesting and eventful. There is a lot happening at my job right now, requiring me to be there saturday nights and early sunday mornings. I have not been able to go to mass because of this. I enjoyed learning about the song O Come Emmanuel, since we since it at mass on Christmas Eve every year and on the following Sundays after Christmas.

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My advent has had two contrasting sides an exciting side and a peaceful side. It's exciting because a break is almost here and also because I can find new ways to celebrate advent. It is peaceful because I've been much more passive and thoughtful this advent opening me up to new thoughts and reflections

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My advent has gone pretty well. We decorated our tree together two nights ago and attended virtual mass on Sunday as a family. We have also been watching holiday movies together a couple nights a week.

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My advent has been going pretty well. My family decorated our house with decorations and we also decorated our Christmas tree. We have been watching virtual mass and praying more as a family during this advent season.

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My advent has been going pretty well so far. My family and I have been really busy lately with Christmas activities. Every night we light the advent candles at dinner together while we eat.

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my advent has been going very slow with online, and catching up on everything. We just got out christmas tree yesterday and me and my sister set it up and decorated throughout the house for the "christmas spirit" my mom loves.
and this picture just makes me laugh and christmas makes me happy so... yea.