How to live the next Advent period

Let's move on to mortification. The Church consecrates four weeks to prepare us for Christmas, both to remind us of the four thousand years that preceded the Messiah, and also because we prepare our hearts for the new spiritual birth that it will operate in us. It commands fasting and abstinence, that is, mortification, as a powerful means of overcoming sin and repressing passions ... Let us therefore mortify gluttony and tongue— Do not complain about fasting, we suffer something for the love of Jesus.

Let's pass it in prayer. The Church increases her prayers in Advent, knowing well the desire of Jesus, to be invoked by us to grant us, and even more because she is persuaded of the great good that prayer always does to us. On Christmas, Jesus communicates to the disposed souls the grace of spiritual rebirth, humility, detachment from earth, love of God; but how can we have it if we do not pray with fervor? How did you spend Advent the other years? You remedied this year.

Let's pass it in the holy aspirations. In these days the Church puts before us the sighs of the Patriarchs, the Prophets, the Righteous of the ancient Covenant; Let us repeat them: Come to free us, O Lord, God of virtue. - Show us your mercy. - Hurry up, O Lord, do not delay any longer ... - In reciting the Angelus, to the words: et Verbum caro factum est, address allures to Jesus, so that he may want to be born in your heart. Do you find this practice too difficult?

PRACTICE. - Set some practices to observe throughout the Advent season; recites nine Ave Maria in honor of the Virgin.