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Advent Calendar:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The first day of Advent heralds the beginning of the Catholic Church\u2019s new year.\u00a0 Advent (from \u2018ad-venire\u2019 in Latin or \u201cto come to\u201d) is the Church season encompassing the four Sundays and weekdays leading up to the celebration of Christmas.\u00a0 Advent is a time of spiritual preparation for the Lord\u2019s coming at Christmas.\u00a0 Advent also prepares us for the second coming of Christ at the end of time.<\/p>\n We are delighted to be bringing you our online Advent Calendar again this year.\u00a0 It will go live on the First Sunday of Advent on 3 December 2017.\u00a0\u00a0This year\u2019s Advent Calendar will have a special focus on family as we prepare together for next year\u2019s World Meeting of Families in Dublin from 21 \u2013 26 August.\u00a0<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong>\u00a0The virtual doors above cannot be opened ahead of their actual date.\u00a0 This warning is for those enthusiasts who ‘can’t wait’.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.catholicbishops.ie\/advent-calendar\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/www.catholicbishops.ie\/advent-calendar\/ Advent Calendar:\u00a0 The first day of Advent heralds the beginning of the Catholic Church\u2019s new year.\u00a0 Advent (from \u2018ad-venire\u2019 in Latin or \u201cto come to\u201d) is the Church season encompassing the four Sundays and weekdays leading up to the celebration of Christmas.\u00a0 Advent is a time of spiritual preparation for the Lord\u2019s coming at … Continue reading Advent Calendar 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}