--- title: "Advent: More than Just a Chocolate Calendar (Ascension Presents)" description: In this video from Ascension Press, Fr. Mike Schmitz explains how we can look forward, with joy, to the birth of Jesus. --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2018/12/01/advent-more-than-just-a-chocolate-calendar-ascension-presents/#) [MEDIA](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/tag/media) # Advent: More than Just a Chocolate Calendar (Ascension Presents) Dec 1, 2018 3:00:36 PM  |  by [Ascension Press](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/ascension-press) !["Ascension Presents" (CatholicMom.com)](http://catholicmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Ascension-Presents-f.png) Ascension Presents is an evangelistic platform bringing entertaining, faith-filled, and dynamic presenters straight to your newsfeed. By providing engaging content for our audience that reflects the good, the true and the beautiful we hope to bring their hearts closer to Christ. In today's video, Fr. Miks Schmitz asks what Advent means to you. Is it a time to put the lights up, gift shop, and eat chocolate? Or is it something more? Fr. Mike says it’s good to prepare ourselves for Christmas during Advent, but ultimately that’s not what the liturgical season is about. Mary, Joseph, and Jesus had to stay in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn. 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