November 2016, when everyone’s talking about deactivating Facebook, unfriending almost everyone, moving overseas, taking long, hot showers, and bathing in Purell.
But you know and I know what we really need: We need Advent. Oh, do we need Advent. Some years, I have to persuade myself to get into the spirit of this season of penance, purification, and preparation, but right now I’m like YES PLEASE NOW PLEASE ALL THE ADVENT NOW PLEASE.
Happily, I have a little giveaway to get you going! Besides its excellent and gorgeous spiritual guide that comes out every month, Magnificat puts out an new Advent Companion every year, and I have two codes for the digital version to give away.
The paper version is 96 pages, a pocket-sized booklet. Here’s what this year’s version looks like:
Here’s a description of what’s inside:
A perfect way to live Advent to the full this year.
This pocket-sized Companion follows a practical, page-a-day format featuring original meditations on the Gospel reading of each day by twenty-five gifted authors.
Each issue of the Advent Companion is never the same as the last and contains these one-of-a-kind extras that you won’t find anywhere else:
– A variety of beautiful and practical blessings.
– An Advent Penance Service.
– Specially-commissioned poetry.
– Advent Stations.
– Praying the O Antiphons.
Magnificat’s products are wonderful. They refresh a world hungry for beauty and help. If you’re busy, you can dip in and follow just some of the content to enrich your Advent as you go; or you can use it as a comprehensive guide to help the season become truly transformative.
You can buy the paper copy here (and they offer discounts for bulk orders), and you can buy the app here.
I’m ditching Rafflecopter this time, because there are always so many glitches. To enter, leave a comment on the blog, and that’s one entry. To get additional entries, share this post on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ or elsewhere on social media, AND . . . IMPORTANT: Please leave a separate comment for each additional entry you would like to earn.
So if you want three entries, leave one comment saying “Me please!” [or whatever], one comment saying “I shared your post on FB” and one comment saying “I tweeted this post.” And so on (using the honor system, because what kind of monster would cheat to get an Advent app?). Does that make sense? That will help me choose a winner randomly by using a random number generator, and I won’t need to use a raffle service.
Good luck! I’ll close the contest at noon eastern on Thursday the 17th, and I’ll announce the notify the winners on Thursday or Friday.
Oh Please Advent! Yes, please, All the Advent.
Tweet!
I need Advent. And this book.
Yes please for my husband, who has really been looking forward to Advent this year . . .
Me please!
I tweeted!
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Shared on Facebook!
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I shared on Facebook too
Looks good – me please
And I have shared on Facebook
I would love to get the Magnificat Advent app.
I’m ready for advent to start, and would love the Magnificat Advent App.
Shared on FB.
God yes please.
Shared on Facebook also
Oh me please this would be great
Shared on fb ’cause others might be looking for Advent reading, too!
Yay! The advent of Advent!
I NEED dis! Shared on Twitter 🙂
OH GOD I NEED DIS!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I shared on FB!
Me please!
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And shared on Facebook
Yes please all the Advent!
I tweeted!
I shared on FB!
Please, please, pretty please!
Me please!
I also tweeted this!
Pick me! 🙂
I tweeted this post.
I shared your post on FB!
Me please!
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Me, please!
Me please! Love the magnificat.
Shared on FB 🙂
Me please!
Advent can’t come soon enough! Come, Lord Jesus. Magnificat me! :).
I’m in. Thanks Simcha.
I wanted to get the paper version of this but money is TIGHT. So me please. Have a blessed Advent.
Me please 😉 and totally agree about wanting advent this year!
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I’d like one!
Me please!
Me, please!
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Pick me!!
Shared on Facebook.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Me, please! 🙂
Me, too! I shared on FB. I tweeted. Great idea about Pinterest @JoeNelson-going to do that too.
Retweeted!
And I shared on Facebook.
ooh! Me! (Waves hand in air)
Me please!
I’m in!
Shared on Facebook
Tweeted this post!
I need this in my life!
oh, our family needs this this year!
and emailed to friends … because I don’t have any of those other cool accounts …
posted on FB
Oh, our family needs this this year!
Shared on g+
Tweeted!
Me please!
Shared on Facebook
Me please!
How nice! I’ve looked through the magnificat before, but never had my own copy :O
Looks beautiful!
Me please. Alas, I’m a Luddite who’s not willing to do FB or Twitter, though it would really boost my chances at these giveaways!
I tweeted this post
I shared your post on Pinterest
I shared your post on Google+
I shared your post on FB
Me please!
want. need. want. me please! 😀
want. need. want. me please! 😀
I love Magnificat!
Shared on Pinterest via liturgical living board.
I’m glad you didn’t use rafflecopter because it annoys me to no end. #onlinegiveawaysnob
I love Magnificat; hope I win!
Also I shared on Facebook 🙂
Yes please!
Shared on Facebook!
Me please!
I want in.