Our 7 Advent Traditions as a Catholic Family

[@ac7442]

Growing up my town (in USA) had a Saint Lucia recital every year before Christmas… I got to sing a solo as Saint Lucia in Swedish, with real candles in a crown on my head! It was such an amazing experience. 🕯🙏🏼

[@martharinebiseko1457]

Wow...thanx for sharing

[@honeykai8274]

You make the vocation of marriage look so fun! I always kinda thought the marriage vocation was all boring and suffering and made me not want to go into that vocation. But you highlight all good ideas to incorporate into family time. I didn't grow up with family traditions, let alone catholic ones. So I look up to you

[@dutchmom3963]

I live in the Netherlands and in my country Saint Nicholas is the big feast with presents. A few weeks before the feast, Saint Nicholas arrives in the Netherlands in a big boat. Children can watch it on national television. Saint Nicholas even visits schools on the fifth of december. In the days coming up to the feast, children put their shoe in front of the fireplace and get sweets or little presents in it during the night when they sleep. On the evening of the 5th of december, presents are brought to the homes bij Saint Nicholas and families celebrate the evening together. We drink hot chocolate and eat all sorts of special sweets and biscuits.

[@martharinebiseko1457]

Wow.. Learning more from you too.

[@maryallisonjimenez9917]

I love your tradition of hiding St. Nicholas!! That's super precious and I'll be doing that when my kid(s) get a little older! This is a wonderful video! Advent has always been my favorite liturgical season - my mom was like you with a passion for bringing it into the home and she gave me that passion too! 🥰🥰 God bless!

[@svsue]

You've helped me be a better Catholic. 💓 Thank you for being such an inspiration to me and so many others by sharing your traditions and daily practices of your Catholic based life🙏 Before following your you tube I was only doing mediocre as a Catholic. But now, practicing Catholicism looks so different in my home💓

[@middaymoms8882]

You are such a gift to the Church!

[@LilabeanAnn]

This will be my first Advent and Christmas as a confirmed Catholic- I’m super excited to celebrate! I’m the only Catholic in my household (there’s only one other Catholic in the family but she lives across the country) so I hope I can find ways to celebrate solo or invite my family to celebrate with me!

[@ACatholicMomsLife]

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[@maureenchilaka446]

How do one chat you up personally? I,d really really love to. Hope to hear from you

[@rachelkivarkis1801]

Wow, dear Heather, this is just amazing. Beautiful, beautiful tradition and celebration. Yes, please for St. Andrew’s prayer. God bless u and ur family. 🙏👏🥰👍🌟✝️❤️🍂🍁🌻

[@julissa689]

Thanks so much for these wonderful videos. Many people, including me, do not know how to celebrate Advent, which is such an important event since we are preparing for Jesus Christ's holy Birth. With this video, we get an idea of how to celebrate. Thank you so much, may God Bless you and your lovely family. ✝️💕🌺🥰

[@laurabenitomartin]

Lovely tradicions you have... Thank you so much to share them with us... God bless you and your family. Big hug with a lot of love from Spain🇪🇸.Laura 🙏🏼📿🕯✝🌹❤🌹❤🌹❤🎀😘😘

[@LenaSheppard]

Thank you for sharing all these wonderful ideas. I appreciate you being here !

[@pama.6410]

You sound like a great Catholic mom. Your kids are blessed.

[@The_GreenBranch]

That's funny, I had commented on your advent prep video about what you do for St. Nicholas' feast Day. I love that you go out to look at Christmas lights on St. Lucy's Feast. One of our sons is born on her feast, so it's a huge day of treats.

[@sarimjimenez6519]

Hi, Mrs. Johnson! All your family traditions are so sweet. God bless you and your ministry.

[@bonnie7577]

Love all these traditions so much! Thank you 🙏

[@bernadettedietrich6429]

Thank you for sharing Heather! Beautiful traditions, you are blessed!!

[@angelicamariaguerrero8105]

Hello Heather!! I love all your videos. I would love that you do a completely video about your prayer routine during your whole day and during weekends.

[@MariaIpp30]

Love all your traditions ❤ will definitely do the st lucy going out seeing lights one this year! Thanks Heather. God bless ❤

[@LB-ku6ry]

Thank you. I love how you teach your children how to love God. I wasn’t exposed to this growing up. I am seeking it now as an adult. God bless you.

[@tyliful]

great idea with the cards and giving manger.

[@BellosdemiAlma]

Hello what nice ideas! My daugther name is Guadalupe, I really love our mother of Guadalupe

[@martharinebiseko1457]

OMG.. Beautiful.

[@BellosdemiAlma]

@@martharinebiseko1457 Yes! Guadalupe Nicole. And My son Miguel Alberto (in English is Michael Albert

[@martharinebiseko1457]

@@BellosdemiAlma awesome. We too did chose and prayed over the names.. 6 Normally get comments as 'Those are traditional catholic names'

[@Aurrsa]

We make chocolate coins on St Nicholas day wrapped up in gold foil. I hang out stockings on that day and fill them up with goodies including the coins. The stockings are taken down after the day is over and packed in with other Advent stuff once the season of Advent is over.

[@bernadettegalvin7768]

Thank you for this video!! I've been wanting to do more for advent so this is just what I needed. A friend told me in reference to decorating earlier than Christmas eve, that advent is about preparing your heart so why not prepare your home for Christ's coming also? No judgement here.

[@BlessedisShe]

Love these so much - thank you for sharing!

[@gracievelazquez5795]

Get some pan dulce (sweet bread) for Our Lady of Guadalupe. Maybe you can find a panaderia near you! 🙏🏽❤️

[@maryfrey]

Great ideas, Heather! I love that you and your husband drive the kids around to look at Christmas lights. My parents used to do that with me and my siblings and we loved it.

[@mht5875]

We had the Advent wreath in our home, a creche which we always placed in the hibachi-sized fireplace in our family room, the Advent calendar. Plus we also had the Christmas tree. Wonderful memories.

[@Aurrsa]

I loved your idea of hiding St Nicholas and I'm going to do that with my son this Advent but with a tiny baby Jesus instead.

[@elizabeth.annrose]

Beautiful traditions!✝️🙏💟

[@maureenchilaka446]

Wow. That's alot of traditions. And they are so beautiful. Where do I start from! I really want to do amazing things for my kids during this period but am clueless. Most of these book are not so available here. I just pray for direction through the holy spirit. Thanks for sharing what know with the world.♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@EileenRobles]

This is video is so fun I love all your family traditions 💛🙏🏻

[@scwendy6302]

I ordered the Giving Manger set this year based your video last year. It was sold out last year so I ordered early!❤️ We do an Advent wreath and a small Advent devotional and we leave shoes out for St. Nicholas on December 6. I really want to incorporate the Jesse tree. I’m not very crafty, so I’d need a set. And I have to budget for that! I love the idea of the cake for Our Mother’s days! I’d love to incorporate a special celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe. So many ideas for a newer Catholic ❤️

[@martharinebiseko1457]

Welcome my dear. Enjoy this wonderful journey

[@Emily-zr7of]

Saint Nicolas is a big feast in Belgium and the Netherlands. You should look into it. :)

[@sensitiveitchyscalpreliefb1153]

Love your video! Shared with my Catholic homeschooling Mom friends!

[@lindaleclair8938]

Always enjoy your videos!

[@LB-gu3wq]

Big support from Europe!

[@Aurrsa]

I used to do St Lucy with my daughter and after she grew up I did it for past few years with my son but now he's ten and doesn't like being dressed up as a girl! So on St Lucy day we bake cookies n serve hot coffee with it. My daughter would carry it on a tray and serve the family in the morning.

[@anonymous78546]

Heather, Thank you for this lovely video.

[@cheraybisaya]

I love this content, thank you for sharing this, God bless you & your family more!

[@carrolsimpson7197]

So precious

[@bymarysgrace6817]

This is so awesome, I wish you were my mom 😂 But for real, this sounds so fun! I didn't grow up Christian so I never got to experience any of the traditions or music, etc. And only around last year have I been learning more about Catholicism and trying to find a good church near me.

[@7776ify]

Can you please recomend some more catholic kids books on saints or catholic traditions. Thank you for the great video !

[@taniasadaqat6463]

Pray for me too. I'm Tania

[@nicoleschuler6465]

I got one last year 😍

[@Aurrsa]

I like your ideas about OL of Guadalupe. I think my son would like to dress up like Juan Diego. Poor chap now doesn't want to dress up like St Lucy anymore!

[@HannahBirzes]

❤️❤️

[@HannahBirzes]

please post more videos geared towards catholic singles :)