Sisters and Brothers,
This Friday, we will have a special guest, Maria, to join us the study.
As we are coming to the beginning of Advent, Fr. Marvin is going to talk about the history and background of Advent.
According to present [1907] usage, Advent is a period beginning with the Sunday nearest to the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle (30 November) and embracing four Sundays. The first Sunday may be as early as 27 November, and then Advent has twenty-eight days, or as late as 3 December, giving the season only twenty-one days.
The preparation for the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord was not held before the feast itself existed, and of this we find no evidence before the end of the fourth century, when, according to Duchesne [Christian Worship (London, 1904), 260], it was celebrated throughout the whole Church, by some on 25 December, by others on 6 January.
Regardless the origin of Advent, it is a joyful time waiting for the Lord's coming.
in Christ,
Dan
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