Sentence examples for the start of advent from inspiring English sources

The beginning of December is not only the start of advent, it's also World Aids Day on Monday 1 December.

Robert T. Ritchie, in purple robes to mark the start of Advent, told thousands of worshipers, "Today is a special day — today is the start of a new translation of the Mass," and directed them to follow the new words listed on laminated pew cards.

Place a branch or wire tree in a vase or pot at the start of Advent.

Alas, the campaign has taken a nastier turn in recent days, and the development has coincided, not surprisingly, with the start of voting, the advent of winners and losers, the harsh divvying of the electoral pie.

American Catholics will first encounter the new missal on Nov. 27, the first Sunday of Advent, the start of the liturgical year and the season leading up to Christmas.

But the advent of cheap package holidays in the 1970s marked the start of its decline.

More than two centuries would pass before the advent of the wave of technological progress associated with the start of the industrial revolution.

I know it's not a book as such, but for me the season starts on the first Sunday of Advent with the collect "Give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and to put on the armour of light", which never fails to send a shiver down my spine and always reminds me how much emotion and meaning can be packed into just a few words.

Most people know when Catholics begin the season of Lent because we are walking around the world with ashes on our foreheads, but how do you know we have started the season of Advent?

The season of Advent starts out in a sombre tone and for the first two weeks, purple and blue are the primary colors used in church.

I can get stollen in places such as Aldi, but it's not the same quality … We are meant to wait until the third day of Advent to start it, but in our family we don't have that kind of willpower, so we start on the first".