Advent: Why Do Catholics Celebrate Advent?

Advent: Why Do Catholics Celebrate Advent?

Are you looking for a resource to help you teach middle or high school students about why Catholics celebrate Advent? This guided and interactive digital activity explains the basics of the Advent season in way that keeps students engaged and focused!

The most fruitful parts of this activity are the interactive reflection questions that are scattered throughout. The questions keep students engaged by leading them to make a connection to their own lives. This helps to move the concepts from their heads to their hearts!

At the end of this activity, your students will know
✅ The meaning and purpose of Advent

✅ The Advent season as a part of the Church's Liturgical calendar,

✅ Origin and meanings of the Words Advent and Incarnation

✅ Advent as a preparation for Jesus coming in the past, the present, and the future

✅ The importance of John the Baptist

✅ The Symbols on a Jesse Tree

✅ The origin and meaning of Advent Wreaths

✅ The names for Jesus found in the Advent readings

✅ The Advent Antiphons

✅ The meaning of Gaudete Sunday

NOTES:

• I have included links to some short videos that I use for introducing concepts or reviewing. I cannot be sure that they will always be active. You will not miss any content if the videos are not live. All content is in the presentation and the videos are just a little extra that I use in my classroom.
• Although other faiths celebrate Advent, this is a Catholic resource.

What are teachers saying about this resource?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Roxie M says "We LOVED this resources... so easy and complete for me to use in class... so clear for my students to follow and work on. THANK YOU for putting this together. Will definitely come back for more from you!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Linda G says " I got my money's worth and then some!!! I was out sick just before Advent. I needed to be in class to continue with the lessons I was teaching and needed something I could assign via Google Classroom. This ADVENT resource was FABULOUS!!!! I literally just had to tell the substitute to tell my students to log onto Google Classroom and they kids did the entire lesson ON THEIR OWN. It was so well laid out that I didn't need to field thousands of questions which is typical every day. They enjoyed the lesson, learned some things about a season they thought they already knew, and I was able to create a Google Forms Quiz to accompany this. BRAVO and thank you so much!!!"

This resource is part of the "Why do Catholics" series specifically designed with the Middle and High School age groups in mind.

• Why do Catholics do that? (Faith Basics)
• Why do Catholics celebrate Advent?
• Why do Catholics Celebrate Lent?
• Why do Catholics do the Corporal Works of Mercy?
• Why do Catholics do the Spiritual Works of Mercy?
• Why do Catholics celebrate Pentecost?
• What do Catholics believe about Mary?