Understanding Advent: History, Devotions, and Preparation - Questions with Father #24 Re-Release

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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Today,we are a re-releasing Episode #24 of Questions with Father, originally offered in 2019, which focuses on Advent. We have received several questions about the season, and Fr. Paul Robinson joined us to answer all of them in this one episode. We discuss why Advent is 4 weeks instead of 40 days, like Lent, go over suggestions for making Advent more advantageous for both children and the whole family, and then discover the origins of one of your favorite Christmas songs. We also try to settle the debate about when it is appropriate to start decorating for Christmas!

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0:00.0	Today on Questions with Father, a re-release of episode number 24.
0:14.4	Originally, we posted this in 2019, and it's all about Advent.
0:18.7	We had received several questions about the season,
0:21.1	and Father Robinson joined us to answer all of them in this one episode.
0:25.1	We discuss why Advent is four weeks instead of 40 days, like Lent,
0:29.5	go over suggestions for making Advent more advantageous for both children and the whole family,
0:34.5	and then discover the origins of one of your favorite Christmas songs.
0:38.3	We also try to settle the debate about when it's okay to start decorating for Christmas.
0:43.0	These podcasts are free to listen to and always will be, but if you can help with a one-time
0:47.0	or a small monthly recurring donation on SSPXpodcast.com, you'll be making sure that we can
0:51.2	continue this work of producing good Catholic content on a regular basis.
0:56.1	So now let's join Father Paul Robinson for a re-release of Questions with Father number 24,
1:02.5	Understanding Advent, Its History, Devotions, and Preparation.
1:16.5	Well, we are here with the SSPX podcast, a special edition.
1:21.4	I guess we could call it, Father Robinson, where we are tackling one topic this week with several questions, and that topic is Advent.
1:24.7	Hello, Father Robinson.
1:25.5	How are you?
1:26.0	Doing fine, Andrew.
1:27.2	Very good. And you are in Denver,
1:30.4	you're the prior of Denver, as we've already discussed, and currently traveling around a little bit,
1:34.3	and we appreciate you making the time to talk with us about these topical questions as we head
1:39.6	into Advent. Glad to be back on, Andrew, and I think this is an important subject to coming up on this
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