{"id":289,"date":"2007-11-20T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T12:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/advent-with-the-dominicans.html"},"modified":"2007-11-20T12:29:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T12:29:33","slug":"advent-with-the-dominicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/advent-with-the-dominicans.html","title":{"rendered":"Advent with the Dominicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Still a week and a half away, since Thanksgiving is so early this year.)
\n(Forget Thanksgiving. Do you know what else is early this year? Just know that I wrote my Parish Evangelization friend a note in which I helpfully reminded her that Easter is about four months away (March 23. Yeah). Because I thought it would cheer her up…..RCIA folks, church musicians and priests, start your engines! And the rest of us…pray for them, offer what help you can..it’s going to be a busy, exhausting quarter of a year.)
\nBack to Advent..Tom, the American Papist, reports on a wonderful <\/em>endeavor being brought to us by the Dominican House of Studies in DC and Catholic Exchange:<\/a>\u00a0An Advent Study that combines text and video. From the OP blog:<\/a><\/p>\n

Every year Christians bemoan how the true meaning of Christmas gets lost from view in our society. In the midst of December\u2019s consumerist frenzy and politically correct greetings, how does one put Christ back in Christmas?
\nThe Church has a powerful response to the secularization of Christmas. The response is Advent.
\nThe Advent season, when lived to its depths, prepares the heart and mind to celebrate Christ<\/em> at Christmas. The more consciously Christians enter into what Advent offers, the greater will be their Christmas joy.
\nTo assist the Church everywhere in entering into Advent as deeply and as consciously as possible, the Dominican Friars of the Dominican House of Studies (Washington, D.C.) and St. Vincent Ferrer Church and Priory (New York City) are offering a series of articles and videos \u2014 titled \u201cThe Mystery of Advent\u201d \u2014 on the Catholic Exchange website<\/font><\/a>. The series consists of one article and one short video for each week of Advent. The articles<\/em> will cover the readings and liturgy for each Sunday of Advent, and will appear on the homepage of Catholic Exchange the Thursday before each Sunday. The articles are designed to help one prepare spiritually for the upcoming Sunday Mass. The first article appears on Thursday, November 29. The videos<\/em> will provide Dominican preaching on the meaning of each Advent week, and will appear each week on the homepage of Catholic Exchange.
\nWe Friars invite everyone to join us this Advent in preparing the way for Christ at Christmas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update: <\/u><\/strong>Well, that was from the Eastern Province Dominicans. Let’s move on to the Western Province Dominicans who have a very nice video posted at GodTube, interviews with three of their four newly ordained priests. Check it out here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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