We invite you to share these weekly Advent Guides with members of your parish, as a way to further engage your people and help everyone prepare for Christ’s coming on Christmas. Here are a few suggestions to help you distribute this resource to your parishioners:
- Post the guide to your parish website; include a link to download.
- Promote it on social media; include a link to download (sample message below).
- Send it out through FlockNote or similar email platform (sample message below).
- Print hard copies and distribute at Masses or leave in the back of church.
- Develop daily social media posts based on content from that week’s guide.
Sample FlockNote Messaging
[HEADLINE] Advent Guide Series – Fourth Sunday of Advent
This Fourth Sunday of Advent, we reflect on the radical obedience and generosity of the Virgin Mary. When the Angel Gabriel announces that she will bear the Son of God, she replies simply and humbly, “I am the handmaid of the Lord, let it be done to me according to His will.”
As we continue to prepare for Jesus’s birth, what lessons can we learn from our Blessed Mother? How can we model our own lives after the humble, selfless life of Mary? What does it mean to truly live the Christian virtue of obedience today? Explore these questions and more in this Sunday’s Advent Guide.
[FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT – DOWNLOAD THE GUIDE HERE!]As a reminder, these weekly guides are intended to assist you in your personal and family prayer each Sunday of Advent. This Sunday, let us – like Mary – freely and willingly embrace God’s plan for us. Let us place our trust completely in Him, as we prepare our hearts to celebrate His Son’s coming on Christmas.
Sample Social Media: Sunday, 12/20
“I am the handmaid of the Lord, let it be done to me according to His will” (Luke 1:38). Today’s Gospel remind us that Mary is a perfect model of humility and obedience. What lessons can we learn from our Blessed Mother? How can we model our own lives after the humble, selfless life of Mary? What does it mean to live the Christian virtue of obedience today? Explore these questions and more in this Sunday’s Advent Guide. [Include graphic and link to download guide.]
