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advent schedule download here
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ADVENT SCHEDULE 2021
DECEMBER 3 ⁕ Friday
“A NIGHT IN BETHLEHEM”
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Parking Lot (Fenced area)
DECEMBER 8 ⁕ Wednesday
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
8:30 am – English Mass
5:15 pm – Procession
6:00 pm – Spanish Mass
DECEMBER 3-11
NOVENARIO FOR OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
7:00 pm – Main Church
DECEMBER 12 ⁕ Sunday
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
5:00 am – Mañanitas
6:00 am – Spanish Mass
7:00 am – Pan y Café
9:00 am – Sunday Mass English
11:00 am – Mariachi Music
11:30 am – Procession
12:00 pm – Spanish Mass
1:00 pm – Fiesta Guadalupana
DECEMBER 13 ⁕ Monday
PENANCE SERVICE
Holy Cross Parish Mission
412 Laurel Street, Arbuckle, CA 95912
6:00 pm – onwards
DECEMBER 17 ⁕ Friday
ADVENT RETREAT (Spanish)
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Parish Center
DECEMBER 18 ⁕ Saturday
ADVENT RETREAT (English)
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Parish Center
DECEMBER 16-24
LAS POSADAS
7:00 pm – Spanish
DECEMBER 21-24
ADORATION
9:00 am – 1:00 pm (Adoration)
DECEMBER 23
"A CHRISTMAS SERENADE"
7:00 pm – Main Church
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The Season of Advent
Beginning the Church's liturgical year, Advent (from, "ad-venire" in Latin or "to come to") is the season encompassing the four Sundays (and weekdays) leading up to the celebration of Christmas.
The Advent season is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to Christ’s second coming at the end of time and also to the anniversary of the Lord’s birth on Christmas. The final days of Advent, from December 17 to December 24, focus particularly on our preparation for the celebrations of the Nativity of our Lord (Christmas).
Advent devotions including the Advent wreath, remind us of the meaning of the season. Our Advent calendar above can help you fully enter in to the season with daily activity and prayer suggestions to prepare you spiritually for the birth of Jesus Christ. More Advent resources are listed below.
source: USCCB
blessing of wreath: click here
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 524:
When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent each year, she makes present this ancient expectancy of the Messiah, for by sharing in the long preparation for the Savior's first coming, the faithful renew their ardent desire for his second coming. By celebrating the precursor's birth and martyrdom, the Church unites herself to his desire: "He must increase, but I must decrease."
This is a period of preparation for the celebration of the Incarnation at Christmas. As Christmas seems to arrive commercially ever earlier each year, the faithful should try to turn our hearts more toward the Lord. Mother Angelica, the foundress of EWTN, once said,Let's not let the season pass without a depth of spirituality in our hearts that lets us ponder. Ponder the mystery of how, and why, this Omnipotent God, before Whom angels tremble, would come down and live nine months in the most pure and holy woman that ever lived, and ever will live. He was confined in a womb with that Infinite Intelligence, Infinite Power, and the Power of the Holy Spirit.
source: EWTN
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