The Christmas Season Is Still A Long Ways Away – Catholic Stand

November will soon end and December will begin. To most people that erroneously means it is Christmas season.
Devout Catholic families know this is not so. They know that this approaching time of year is actually Advent, which begins on November 30 this year.
Regardless, it is difficult for parents and children alike to resist the tendency to think of nothing but Christmas as December approaches. Stores, advertising, and TV shows begin to hammer us with all things Christmasy usually starting in early November.
It also makes it challenging to keep the focus off Christmas and on Advent in the days and weeks after Thanksgiving. Some neighborhood houses are aglow in twinkling lights and have inflatable Santas staked on their lawns even before Thanksgiving. And there are also radio stations that play nothing but Christmas music starting in November.
Popular culture’s powerful influence of commercialism has gotten most to believe that Christmas begins somewhere between the day after Halloween …