This year, the Diocesan Youth Leadership Team has created an interactive Advent calendar to help you reflect on this beautiful season of hope and preparation. After praying with the Sunday Scripture for each week, the YLT developed short reflections and action items for people of all ages to use throughout Advent. The calendar can be found on the CYM website under the YLT page, or directly by clicking here! Feel free to share the calendar with anyone you know who wants to connect more deeply with their faith this season. Please know that the YLT and CYM Office will continue to pray for you throughout Advent! God bless.
Advent: the “Little Lent”
Christmas is the “most wonderful time of the year”: trees are trimmed, presents wrapped, and the chilly air signals the coming season of festive warmth. But did you know we’re not really ready for Christmas without first observing a “little Lent?” Read more from the Catholic Apostolate Center.
Beginning the Church’s liturgical year, Advent (from, “ad-venire” in Latin or “to come to”) is the season encompassing the four Sundays (and weekdays) leading up to the celebration of Christmas. Learn more from the USCCB.
“Wait for it….” It’s a popular phrase along pop-culture landscapes. The problem is nobody likes to wait, and yet waiting is a part of life. We wait at the DMV or the grocery store checkout, in line at the post office to mail Christmas packages, for an appointment, a diagnosis, a resolution, a solution, an opportunity, the light at the end of the tunnel, a birth, a death… read more from Franciscan Media.
Learn 6 simple ways to enrich your Advent Season from Busted Halo.
Watch Sunday Mass for Advent on the Diocese of Wilmington’s YouTube Channel. Mass is live-streamed at 9:30 each Sunday morning from the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Wilmington or watch the replay anytime at YouTube.com/DioceseofWilm.
