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Advent, Christmas a good time for families to reflect on how to live like Mary

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Advent, Christmas a good time for families to reflect on how to live like Mary

July 29, 2019October 11, 2025

By EmmaLee Italia | Contributing EditorJessica Donohue, parish catechetical leader in Sacred Heart Parish, Mount Holly, believes that thriving during Advent and Christmas begins with family relationships.“With the hectic nature of the holiday season, it is unfortunately sometimes too easy to neglect that," she noted. “But caring for our ‘domestic Church’ is so important and…...