Advent & Christmas
Prayer
The Season of Advent is a fantastic way to celebrate the end of the school year here at Kildare Catholic College. The St Vincent de Paul Christmas drive is the main focus of our mission in the last month of term four. We have celebrated our final Liturgy with Fr Sean Byrnes and we wish everyone a blessed and safe Christmas and New Year.
Here are some thoughts about Advent and Christmas 2024-25:
Advent is the season that precedes Christmas, beginning about four weeks before the Nativity. On the first Sunday of Advent in 2022, Pope Francis encouraged us to prepare our hearts daily for the coming of Christ. He said,
Let us bear this in mind: God is hidden in our life, he is always there – he is concealed in the commonest and most ordinary situations in our life. He does not come in extraordinary events, but in everyday things; he manifests himself in everyday things. He is there, in our daily work, in a chance encounter, in the face of someone in need, even when we face days that seem grey and monotonous, it is right there that we find the Lord, who calls to us, speaks to us and inspires our actions.
Pope Francis (Angelus on November 27, 2022)
While much of the world celebrates Christmas the entire month of December, if not earlier, the liturgical Christmas season begins on Christmas Day, December 25, 2024, and concludes on January 8, 2025. So keep playing your joyful Christmas music and leave up your Christmas tree and decorations until the celebration of Epiphany.
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Kind Regards
Ondre Nejman | Leader of Faith Formation and Mission