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What is the significance of the Advent season?

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What is the significance of the Advent season?

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Advent is a time when we prepare to celebrate and remember Christ’s first coming in the Incarnation and a time when we are reminded that we need to prepare for Christ’s second coming at the end of time. Advent is thus a period for devout and joyful expectation. The “General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar (GNLYC)” notes the season looks to the future and to the past. The Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy characterizes Advent as a season of “waiting, conversion and hope.