The Essential Advent and Christmas Handbook>/I> provides everything you need for a richer experience during the Christmas season. Whether you wish to follow a traditional, contemporary, or family program of devotion and prayer for Advent and Christmas, The Essential Advent and Christmas Handbook all-in-one resource will be a treasured guidebook that your family can use year after year. The Essential Advent and Christmas Handbook includes morning and evening prayer services, a short history of Advent, the preparatory nature of Advent, traditional hymns and symbols of Christmas, traditional Christmas practices, a Christmas Novena, daily Christmas meditations, family meal prayers for the holiday season, a glossary of key terms, and much more. With a paperback cover, The Essential Advent and Christmas Handbook is light and easy to take with you wherever you go during the busy Christmas season.