As we look forward to Advent and Christmas, Father Dave welcomes Rebecca and Stephen Grabill to talk about how to live out these seasons in your home. They share ideas for liturgical living in their new book, “The Joy of Advent: Family Celebrations for Advent & the Twelve Days of Christmas.”

Rebecca explains the years that went into creating intentional Advent traditions at home. “It’s something that the Lord started growing in our family more than 20 years ago,” she says. “It has been a cornerstone for our family. Even for our adult kids, the memories they have of ‘doing Advent’ are some of their richest, most treasured memories. They want to recreate that in their generation and beyond.”

Stephen and Rebecca explain the importance of the domestic church, which Stephen describes as “how we do faith formation in our families.” Rebecca adds, “Faith grows at home. I think there’s an issue in our current culture where a lot of kids who grew up in the faith don’t end up carrying it through [and] leave the church in their young adulthood…One of the solutions is don’t outsource faith formation. Your church starts with mom and dad around the dinner table. Those seeds get planted there and get watered there.”