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The First Week of Advent 2025

The Gifts of Advent from Loyola Press

The Gifts of Advent
 

The Gift of Life

Sunday is the day to rest and enjoy the gift of life. So play family games, visit relatives, carry out a hobby, go swimming or hiking, play pickleball, work a jigsaw puzzle, attend a play or a concert, take a nap, or maybe even have a girls’ night out. Make yourself happy by making someone else happy this day. Make God happy by spending time with him in extra prayer.

 

Christians moved the Lord’s Day from Sabbath to Sunday because Jesus rose from the dead that day. Each Sunday is a little Easter. After observing it well, on Monday morning you arise from sleep, a little death, fresh and full of life.

 

—Excerpted from Cherished by Jesus
by Mary Kathleen Glavich, SND

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