Let the Advent Wars Begin!

🎄🔥 LET THE ADVENT WARS BEGIN! 🔥🎄
Welcome to the ONLY Christmas-prep video brave enough to admit what the rest of the world won’t: Advent is basically a four-week battle campaign—and you are terribly outnumbered.

In this episode, I heroically attempt to celebrate Advent while dodging:

Rogue Christmas decorations that attack before Thanksgiving is even over

People who think Advent is just “Christmas Lite”

Grocery stores already playing Mariah Carey at full blast

That one coworker who won’t stop bragging about finishing Christmas shopping in July

My own internal chaos, which is frankly the most aggressive enemy combatant

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll probably wonder why I’m allowed near a camera unsupervised.
But most importantly, you’ll discover:
Advent isn’t about winning the war… it’s about surviving it with your faith and your sanity still attached.

🔥 Light a candle.
⚔️ Brace for impact.
🎄 And let the Advent Wars begin.

#AdventWars #CrappyCatholic #HolidayChaos #SurvivingAdvent #TooEarlyForChristmas #LetTheSeasonBegin

Transcript

Hey, you know what time of year it is? Yeah, it's that time of year again. When they start playing Christmas music in November. I'm not talking the end of November. I'm talking the first couple days of November. Have you seen it yet? And you drive around? Do you see the Santa Clauses and the candy canes and the lights and all that good stuff? Because, hey, Christmas is here, right? And it's really bizarre that the world seems to hate Christians and Christianity so much. There's so much fighting and there's so much horrible stuff going on in the world. But don't take away that Christmas. Actually, it's not even Christmas. It's that holiday. You know, it's this time of year when we celebrate the holidays. And heaven forbid if you were to say Christmas, we celebrate the holidays. But I'm digressing already. I know people have a lot of takes on this. And this is my opinion partially that why are people getting why are people celebrating Christmas already? It's not here. Last time I checked, the calendar says December 25th, right? That's Christmas. That's the birth date of Jesus Christ. Okay? Even on a practical level, think about anybody that you know that you love dearly and their birthday falls on, okay, but fe uh March 15th. Okay, let's say March 15th. Are you telling me that you're celebrating their birthday like a month and a half? like February 1 or 1 or the end of January, you wouldn't think of that. You'd be sick of it. The persons who whose birthday is would be sick of it. So you you're going around and there's all this Christmas music and all this stuff going on. And then December 25th comes and you celebrate the day probably in one way or another or Christmas Eve, however you you celebrate with your family. And then by the 26th, the Christmas trees have already hit the curb for the trash collection. they're already out there to be burned or thrown away or whatever because people are sick and tired of it. Is that how we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ? I I don't know. I don't think it's cool. But as Catholics, what comes before Christmas is the preparation to get ready for Christmas. It's called Advent. I know you've heard about it. Some of you have those cute advent calendars with a little piece of chocolate for each day. And according to your advent calendar, there's only three days left of Christmas. that you know you do what you you do what you want. My point is simply this. We're getting ready for Christmas and that is what Advent is for. Advent is a time for sacrifice in in the sense of you know try some extra abstaining from things that you like or enjoy uh fasting and getting ready for Christmas. And yet there's so many people even Catholics who get sucked up into this this this culture of of Christmas. And it's not even a culture of Christmas. It's a culture of the holidays. We are we are entering the holiday season because we don't want to offend everybody else who's celebrating something else that all of a sudden, you know, everything's just as important as the birth of Jesus Christ. That it's it's obnoxious and it's ridiculous. So, first thing, if you're a Catholic and you're going to celebrate Christmas, celebrate Christmas because that's what we celebrate, Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ. So, I get back to the point that it's it's time for Advent. And people are people get upset with me every time I talk about like, "Oh, I set up my tree on the, you know, the 10th of December or I I put all my lights up and have those things going before then." It's not a matter of being the Christmas police. It's a matter of let's let's think about this logically. If you're getting ready to celebrate the birth of Jesus, you are preparing to celebrate the birth of Jesus. And you know what's really, you know, I I don't know if you know this and and I didn't know this for the longest time. Did you know for for Catholics the Christmas season is from December 25th? That's when it starts. December 25th. The Christmas season isn't before Christmas. It starts on Christmas Day. And you know how long it goes for? February 2nd. February 2nd. It's called Candle Mass Day. And that's the day that um Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the temple. It was the purification of Mary on that day. So, we Catholics know how to party. We're we're celebrating from December 25th till February 2nd. But for the rest of the world, it's all over on pretty much the 26. Or some people like, "Well, I keep it a week after." And you know why they get rid of the Christmas trees? Because by then they're a fire hazard. They turn brown, they're dry, they're ready to go poof and kill everybody in the house. I just it it just amazes me that we're we're we're missing out on the best part of this season, the Advent season, where you're getting ready and you're getting ready for our Lord. You're making a home for him in your in your heart, in your soul. Now, what you do at home, I, you know, that's between, I don't know, you and God, you and your family, whatever you want to do. You want to set up a tree, great. You want to, you know, have lights and all the music and everything going, that's up to I mean, there there are no Christmas police that I'm aware of yet. Maybe they're holiday police coming to a town near you. My point is simply this. If you're going to have all these things up and going, think how much that actually takes away from the actual day of Christmas and beyond the celebration. Think about how joyful here's what's really cool. When the rest of the world has put all the stuff away and they're getting ready for the next next holiday, which we'll talk about in a second, you're just getting started. You're the one who's playing Christmas music. You know, hey, try this. Other than going to the stores and place where you're just, you know, you're forced to hear all the Christmas music. Just say to yourself, I'm not going to play any Christmas music at home or on my radio, in the car, anything until Christmas Day. First of all, you won't be sick and tired of Christmas by the time Christmas actually comes. In fact, you'll be like, you'll be chomping at the bit to celebrate because you've been waiting. You've been holding off. You've been saying no. You haven't been, you know, throwing food down your gullet for 30 days straight or whatever that is. And then boom, December 25th hits and you start to part. And by part, I mean you get Christmas carols, you give, you know, your your gift giving, whatever traditional uh things you like to do with family and all that. But you are just you're Catholic. You're just starting to rock at that point. and you're carrying it out to to the logical conclusion which is February 2nd. So yes, Advent is coming. And I call them the Advent wars because I know people fight back and forth, especially especially Catholics who are who, you know, they're like, "Well, you really shouldn't put up your tree until uh 11:58 on Christmas Eve or whatever like that." It's like, look, I that's your again, that's your business. Do it do what you want. I I I personally, like I said, I like to wait till it's that time to really you you build up the the expectation that here comes Christmas. This is this great thing you're looking forward to. Like, do you remember as a kid when you're waiting when when you're you know, you know, and back then it was a little different. You're waiting for Santa Claus and you knew gifts were coming and you just couldn't wait. you just, you know, every movie, every TV show, and and probably in your own home, you couldn't wait to get up on Christmas morning to go see all the presents, and you're up before mom and dad, and you were all excited. It was the anticipation of that day. So, Advent is coming. It's in a few days. Why don't you, I don't know, just consider giving up like your favorite food almost like it's like a maybe a a mini Lent. Give up some of your favorite food. Maybe give up shoving so much food down your pie hole all the time and turn it into a 350 pound bulk of lard. I guess if that's where where you are. My point is simply this. Just find some way to deprive yourself of something you really like or enjoy. Make it a sacrificial type season because it's done in the spirit of love because you're getting ready to let Jesus into your heart. So, you know, you can't escape it. If you go out, like I said, you're going to get beat over the head with, you know, a lot of the cheesiest Christmas music. Oh, I miss growing up in the days where at least Christmas music was, you know, good and and I don't know, wholesome and all that good. So, there was so much garbage out there anyway. But, so you can't get away from it. I guess you can walk through Walmart with, you know, noise cancelling headphones on and dark sunglasses, but to the point where you're you're not celebrating Christmas like before Christmas, do your best to just kind of get rid of the noise. Get out of, you know, try to shield yourself from it the best you can and and make an effort to prepare for Christmas. Christmas doesn't start on November 3rd. I know, shocker, boys and girls. It just doesn't. So, I I hope you'll take this season seriously. Maybe maybe take on a practice like, you know, praying more. If you're if you're not praying in the morning when you wake up in the evening when you go to bed, may maybe start doing that. If you're not praying your rosary every day, maybe start, you know, working on that as well. If you want to, you know, maybe maybe you want to work on charitable things like giving and donating or donating your time, some things like that. And like I said, when when when the birthday comes, that's when you party. I dare say there's not a person who's hearing this who who celebrates their birthday for a month and a half before the birthday comes because man, because the time the birthday comes, and this is part of human nature, like I'm sick of this. I'm sick of the music. I'm sick of seeing that tree flashing in the corner of my my, you know, living room for the last month and a half. It it just you know by human nature you're just you know you're done. So party like a Catholic. Okay. You start on December 25th and it goes till February 2nd. And be a be a model for the world that say, "Oh man, this is still Christmas. This is Christmas season." Because like I said, there's another holiday coming up and people already, I guarantee you, as soon as the Christmas decorations go down in their houses and when they go down in the stores, guess what's coming up? red boxes, candy, Valentine's Day, another Catholic holiday. So, use this Advent season well. Do it the best you can, but know that the Lord's birthday is on the 25th. And let's start celebrating on the 25th. And Mariah Carey, I love you, but you know what? Enough is enough. All right, have a blessed Advent.