Southern California Catholics are being invited to make use of a “digital Advent calendar” to help prepare spiritually during the liturgical season of Advent.
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ new Advent webpage, LACatholics.org/Advent2020, will be updated each day with prayers, music, videos and other resources for faithful to “celebrate the season of Advent safely at home and online during the pandemic,” according to a Nov. 29 news release.
In its announcement, the archdiocese said the campaign was about inviting Catholics to put aside more time for family prayer. To that end, it invited families to use the hashtag #ItStartsAtHome in social media posts sharing the ways in which they are living the liturgical season.
Resources like the digital advent calendar and livestreamed Masses in parishes around the archdiocese are part of the archdiocese’s efforts to reach out to LA Catholics spending more time at home since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020.
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Here’s an idea: open up the churches for Mass, confessions and devotions. Hey, bishops and priests, don’t scratch your heads and wonder what happened when in eight months or so you see only 50% of past attendance at Mass and a 30% drop in offertory.
The Word became flesh. He didn’t stream his virtual presence to earth.
I don’t always agree with Kevin T , but on this he is spot on , I think the mass attendance and offertory numbers will be less sadly , this is not leadership or caring for the laity .