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Christ: present at Christmas and always
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
During a Christmas visit to Germany, I enjoyed being part of my hosts’ holiday activities. This included opening the doors of an Advent calendar, with a little window for each of the first 25 days of December.
The calendars are fun—everyone received a little gift when a new window was opened—but their deeper purpose is to build up anticipation for Christmas Day and the celebration of Jesus’ birth.
Over the centuries, Advent celebrations have evolved into a time of expectation of the Second Coming of Jesus or, in another sense, a renewed consciousness of the Christ-spirit that animated Jesus’ life.
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