The Christmas season has arrived. Trees and lights have been going up in neighborhoods and towns across the country. Those who don’t hear Christmas songs outside from carolers will hear them inside while shopping, holiday or otherwise. Sometimes, it can seem that the gauzy modern trappings of the holiday have supplanted its true meaning.
But Christians hold fast to that true meaning. The purpose of Advent, the liturgical season that marks the lead-up to Christmas, is to prepare ourselves to welcome Christ into our lives. We derive inspiration from how Mary welcomed Christ into her life, and thereby into the world, by her participation in the divine plan that she would be His mother.
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