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Last Sunday marked the beginning of Advent.

It can be difficult to stay focused on the “Reason for the Season” this time of year. But we’re in luck.

Catholic Online has a page of Web resources for Advent. The online publication explains the meaning of this time of preparation as well as the significance of the Advent wreath.

“The wreath’s symbolism of the advent (coming) of light into the world is clear. The gradual lighting of the four candles, one on each Sunday of the Advent season, combined with the liturgical colors of the candles (purple is the penitential color used during Advent and Lent; rose is a liturgical color used only on Gaudete Sunday in Advent and Laetare Sunday in Lent) help to symbolize not only our expectation and hope in Our Savior’s first coming into the world, but also in His Second Coming as judge at the end of the world.”