• Daily Readings 
• The “O Antiphons” of Advent
• Lectio Divina for Advent in English
• Sign up to receive Advent Reflections from Catholic Mobilizing Network
• Sign up to receive daily Advent Reflections with Picture of Creche from the McGrath Institute at Notre Dame
• What are we preparing for this Advent?
• I love Advent
• Preparing our hearts to receive Jesus: praying during Advent
• If you don’t pray every day, start this Advent
• Advent Weekly Reflections- Ignatian Spirituality
• A Different Kind of Advent: Introduction to Sunday Reflections- Renewal & Restoration   Advent 1 Advent 2  Advent 3  Advent 4 
• Join a virtual Small Group Study through CatholicLink– Prepare Your Heart. Register here

A Different Kind of Advent: Renewal & Restoration

• Introduction
• Advent 1
• Advent 2
• Advent 3
• Advent 4

• Place an Advent wreath on your table and light the candles every time you sit down to eat – don’t forget to bless the wreath. Blessing of an Advent Wreath
• Use Laudato Sí Advent Calendar to count down the days till Christmas – have everyone share one thing they are grateful for before opening each door or practice works of mercy on the journey towards Christmas
• Set up a manger in a prominent place in your home, and invite the kids to place a piece of ‘hay’ in it for every act of kindness or sacrifice they make to prepare a soft bed for the Christ Child. Blessing of a Christmas Manger or Nativity Scene
• Learn how an Angel Visits Mary
• Learn How to Pray the Hail Mary
• Place Christmas cards you receive in a basket, pick one each night and pray for that family
• Make time for the family to go to confession during Advent.  – Click here for a Parish near you.
• Attend Christmas Mass together as a family – Click here for this year’s Christmas Mass schedule at a Parish near you.

Serve Your Community:

• Participate in a giving tree or some other opportunity to adopt a family or child who will otherwise not receive any gifts this Christmas
• Serve lunch at a local soup kitchen
• Bake Christmas cookies and deliver to a home-bound neighbor
• Offer hot cocoa and cookies to the garbage collector or mail carrier
• Offer to cover a coworker’s shift so they can spend more time with family
• Take flowers to a local cemetery and leave them on a grave anonymously
• Send Christmas cards to soldiers on deployment
• Send a care package to a friend or family member who has moved away
• Sign up for Angel Tree and bring comfort to a child with a parent in prison
• Advent & Christmas Resources for Children– includes: 

• • Create an Advent Jesse Tree This ancient tradition, based on Isaiah 11:1, helps children learn the Christmas story and related Scripture. Blessing of a Christmas Tree
  • Make your own Advent Prayer Book
  • Make a Nativity Advent Calendar to count-down the days till Christmas – have everyone share one thing they are grateful each day or practice works of mercy on the journey towards Christmas 
  • Write Jesus a Birthday Card 
  • Learn about all of the Names of Jesus