Advent...the "coming" or "arrival" of Jesus Christ!!
The observance of Advent as well as the observance of Christmas began in the fourth century. When the church began to observe Christmas...the celebration of the birth of Christ...the church also recognized Advent...the preparation for the celebration of Christ's birth. In the early church the "preparation period" or Advent lasted from three to seven weeks. It is now traditionally observed on each of the four Sundays proceeding Christmas and on Christmas Eve.
The term advent has several meanings
the Advent of the Lord in flesh at Christmas
His Advent in Word and Spirit
the final Advent when our Lord will return in bodily in glory
Last Sunday we prepared our Advent wreath. The boys and I made the candle holders with a homemade clay of sort. It was made of flour, glue, salt, lemon juice and water. A little on the smelly side but it worked.
The artisans at work.
The completed holders
these are mine
And our completed wreath!!
7 comments:
You do such an amazing job with traditions with your boys!!
Oh' my goodness, this is a wonderful idea! It turned out beautiful!!!
Who needs Martha for ideas when they have you?! You come up with the greatest projects....I'm still contemplating doing a gumdrop forest like you guys did last year :)
Beautiful wreath!
I love the photos of your boys looking so proud of what they've made :)
You definitely are keeping Christmas alive and well in your hearts and in your home!
By the way, still waiting for that big reveal!
I love this! We never did any advent activities when I was a kid...I never even really knew what it meant:( You kids will have such great memories!
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