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So let's get right into it. Today we are talking about

Advent, the Advent season and how the tutors would have been celebrating the Advent season. So it is so

perfect, you guys. I am so set up with this because it's snowing outside. I don't know if you

can see it in the background or not, but there's little flakes. It's not going to land. It's been

too warm, but it's snowing. So the word advent itself, interestingly, means, you know,

preparation or coming. And traditionally in Gaul and Spain in the 4th, 5th century,

Advent was a time when they were preparing Christians for the baptisms that would happen at the

Feast of the Epiphany, which I thought was really interesting. So it wasn't really about

Christmas at all.

It was preparing the new Christians for their baptism that would happen later. By the 6th century,

I think it was, it started to reach this point of like preparation for Christmas, preparation

spiritually, getting your soul ready to celebrate the birth of Christ, all of that.

So this was a time for our tutor friends much more than today, I think.

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