Advent 2022

Over the years, I have written, prepared workshops, and baked many edible and a few inedible food items for the Advent and Christmas seasons. I truly loved those years. It was great fun doing all the many seasonal activities. In this post I am going to list some of the Advent feast days that I wrote about in the past with their links.

This Advent I am limiting myself to a post on St. Lucy. Bob, Catherine, and I went to the church in Venice where St. Lucy is entombed and remains incorrupt. I took pictures and purchased a book which I will share with you closer to her feast day on December 13.

I am working on another writing project this December which I look forward to sharing with you after the first of the year. In the meantime, I am going to recommend The Harwood Mysteries Series for your children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews who are ten and up by Antony Barone Kolenc. It is published by Loyola Press. There are four in the series currently with six in total planned. I will write about them in another post, but I recommend them as great reads and Christmas presents for your middle schoolers and up. I have read two of them already and am now reading the third. Don't wait for me to finish!  Check them out yourself at this link:The Harwood Mysteries

The links below will take you from my oldest posts on Advent starting at the top to the newer posts at the bottom of the page. The novena prayer to St. Andrew concludes the post. Tomorrow's is his feast day. Happy Feast of St. Andrew! St. Andrew help us to have a fruitful Advent.

Advent Saints

St. Nicholas

Juan Diego

Our Lady of Guadalupe

St. Lucy, Las Posadas, Books

St. Lucy,

Legend of the Poinsettia

Mexican Hot Chocolate

Las Posadas

Song of Old: Lovely Advent Story

Song of Old: An Advent Calendar for the Spirit by Miriam Scott - available on Amazon. Highly recommend it for age 9 and up, especially for girls. It is a lovely and beautifully written story.

Celebrating Advent and Christmas recipe photos

Every recipe from my book is photographed and the page is listed where it may be found in the book.

Feast of St. Andrew

St. Andrew, First Called

More Advent

St. Juan Diego & Our Lady of Guadalupe, Hispanic Catholic Decorated Shrine

St. Nicholas

The Advent Wreath 

The Advent Calendar

The Jesse Tree

Advent Waiting Through Baking

Four Weeks of Baking Using a Different Cookie Cutter Each Week 

Week 1 - Angel Cookie Cutter

Week 2 - Shepherd Cookie Cutter

Week 3 - Candle Cookie Cutter

Week 4 - Star Cookie Cutter

     WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A GRACE-FILLED ADVENT SEASON

                                        St. Andrew Christmas Novena Prayer

Hail and blessed be the hour and the moment when the Son of God was born of the most 

pure Virgin Mary at midnight in Bethlehem in the piercing cold. At that hour vouchsafe, Oh 

God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the intercession of our Lord and 

Savior, Jesus Christ, and His most Blessed Mother.

Many say this prayer for 15 times from the Feast of St. Andrew to Christmas Eve.