Advent/Christmas 2007

Encountering the Living Christ

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For Your Friends

• Include a copy of the Prayer for Peace to Mary, Queen of Peace, or the Prayer for Families in your Christmas cards this year.
• Give a copy of Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers especially to your newly-married friends and those with young children.

For Your Family

• Invite different family members to lead prayer before and after meals using the blessings for Advent and Christmas in Catholic Household Blessings and Prayer.
• Give A Rosary for Peace or Rosary for the Church in Need as a stocking stuffer.

For Your Children or Grandchildren

• Learn the traditional prayers of the Church with the new Manual of Indulgences.
• Watch The First Christmas and Martin the Cobbler as an Advent family-night activity.
• Begin Advent with the Blessing of an Advent Wreath in Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers.
• Teach your children one prayer to Mary each week during Advent with the Book of Mary.

For Your Parish

• Donate a case (12 per carton) of Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers to the marriage preparation program.
• Give ten copies of A Rosary for Peace or Rosary for the Church in Need to be prayed on January 1 and throughout the year.
• Sign up your pastor as an annual subscriber to the Resource Service, USCCB Publishing's automatic mailing of its new English-language publications.
• Present the parish with a carton of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (12 per carton) or the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (44 per carton) for the religious education program.
• Buy packages of A Prayer for Peace (packages of 100) to be distributed on January 1.
• Donate a copy of Rite of Confirmation to your pastor.

For Yourself

• Support your prayer life with a copy of the Manual of Indulgences which is one of the most inclusive books of traditional Catholic prayers.
• Start a new year of personal growth and reflection with the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults and its companion piece Reader's Journal.
• Buy a copy of the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and put it where you can easily reach it to answer your, your childrens', or your students' questions about the Catholic faith.
• Purchase a copy of A Rosary for Peace or Rosary for the Church in Need to put in your purse or coat pocket to pray on January 1.
• Give yourself a year-long gift of the Resource Service and receive every new English-language publication as soon as it is published plus up to 40% off on all purchases.