When To Decorate Your Christmas Tree
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Holy Family School of Faith. |
| 0:05.0 | In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, |
| 0:10.0 | Amen. Let us pause a moment recall all those who have asked us to pray for them. |
| 0:20.0 | I thought we could reflect on something which lacks any controversy, |
| 0:24.0 | and people don't hold strong opinions about it all. |
| 0:27.1 | So I thought we could talk about when and should |
| 0:29.4 | you should decorate, and when it is, |
| 0:31.6 | you should listen to Christmas music. |
| 0:34.0 | Ha ha. |
| 0:35.0 | But seriously, having celebrated the most solemn feast of Christ the King, |
| 0:39.0 | it's now time to turn our attention to Advent. |
| 0:42.0 | This season is often neglected or misunderstood for what it is. Or maybe our lives |
| 0:48.1 | conflict mightily with a season that is about silence and waiting. |
| 0:54.7 | It seems difficult to date exactly when Advent first |
| 0:57.6 | came to be observed in the church, |
| 0:59.1 | but we do know that St. Gregory of Tours |
| 1:01.6 | speaks in his second book, History of the Franks, about a fasting and |
| 1:05.4 | penitential period that was carried out by a previous bishop, St. Perpetuous. |
| 1:11.3 | So that was around the year 480 AD. This initial period prescribed fasting |
| 1:17.0 | three days a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from St Martin's Feast Day |
| 1:21.4 | until Christmas. |
| 1:23.0 | Because this was about 40 days, 43 to be exact, |
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