It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Advent

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Hey you! Yeah, you!! PUT DOWN THAT NAT KING COLE CHRISTMAS ALBUM. It's not time yet!! Technically, it won't even be time on December 1, which is the beginning not of Christmas but of the Advent season. It's also the beginning of the liturgical calendar. And since these sorts of things can be hard to focus on unless you really set out with intention at the beginning, I thought this year I'd invite you to read and meditate with me during the season. And don't worry, you can still play Christmas music.

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0:00.0	It's beginning to look a lot like Advent, everywhere you go.
0:15.0	Okay, in my family, we have a rule. In this house, we believe. It's like one of those
0:23.7	yard signs where they say, in this house, we believe whatever it is they believe. Black Lives
0:28.1	Matter, I think, something. Anyway, I haven't seen one of those yard signs around in a while.
0:31.5	It's sort of interesting. Anyway, in my house, in my family, here's what we believe, okay?
0:37.0	If you play Christmas music before Thanksgiving,
0:41.9	straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200, it is punishable by law to start
0:50.2	Christmas music, Christmas festivities, even to hum a Christmas song, like I sort of did at the
0:55.9	beginning of this episode, but we won't talk about that. Any of this is wrong and bad because the
1:01.6	Christmas season begins when Santa Claus reaches Harold Square in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
1:08.7	parade, not one second before, not one second after.
1:12.8	The whole point of this season is to celebrate Thanksgiving and most importantly, my birthday,
1:18.6	which is tomorrow. Happy Spencermas, everybody. Do not erase Thanksgiving. Do not erase my birthday.
1:25.1	Wait until Santa Claus reaches Herald Square.
1:28.5	And here's the thing about this.
1:30.1	This rule, which I believe is shared in some variety or another by all good, decent, and
1:36.5	right-thinking people across Christendom, even this rule is actually not quite strict enough.
1:43.9	It's not trad enough because the thing that
1:46.8	we do with Christmas, where we start it in December and we have this whole Christmas season
1:51.3	leading up to December the 25th, this is actually a relatively modern innovation and it cheats
1:58.7	us out of one of the best liturgical seasons of the year, and that is
2:03.0	Advent. You probably have heard of Advent, you know about Advent calendars. Some of you, I know,
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