By Joannie Watson, Integrated Catholic - The liturgical calendar, the calendar by which the Church prays and lives, has a purpose. We need to get back to living the liturgical calendar, as counter-cultural as it may be sometimes... We make plans for Lent: what we’re going to do, what we’re going to give up, what we might add to our spiritual lives, what goals we might have to help purifying our lives. But what about Advent?