Join us to celebrate the Name Day for Church of the Advent on the first Sunday of Advent, December 3rd. We will have a pot-luck meal after Mass.

The word "Advent" means a coming or appearing, and this word is used to name Jesus Christ's first coming into the world and his promised second coming. His first coming rescued our human nature from futility and gave us a way to be remade in God's likeness, and his second coming will complete that work of remaking us and the whole cosmos in himself. We all now live between those two advents, and as Christians we are called to implement Christ's first coming while anticipating his second. The season on the calendar leading up to Christmas is actually called Advent, and it is a season marked by prayer, fasting, and a bright hope. It is in this spirit of joyful yet sober expectation that we named our parish The Church of The Advent.