Whereas most American Methodist worship is modeled after the Anglican Communion's Book of Common Prayer, a unique feature was the once practiced observance of the season of Kingdomtide, which encompasses the last thirteen weeks before Advent, thus dividing the long season after Pentecost into two discrete segments.

The earliest American full preterist work was ' The Second Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ: A Past Event ', which was written in 1845 by Robert Townley.

For about 20 years, the Adventist movement consisted of a small loosely knit group of people who came from many churches whose primary means of connection and interaction was through James White's periodical, The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald.

The Advent Movement emerged in the 1830s and 1840s in North America, and was preached by ministers such as William Miller, whose followers became known as Millerites.

Advent of the village of Gretna on this new laid rail line was the cue for the exit of the nearby trading post of Forest City, which had existed since 1856.

The Advent Message to the Daughters of Zion focused on female readers, and was first published in May 1844.

The Advent Shield was a more academically orientated paper published in Boston and edited by Joshua Vaughan Himes, Sylvester Bliss, and Apollos Hale.

On that day, during a prayer session with a group of Advent believers, Hiram Edson became convicted that “ light would be given ” and their “ disappointment explained .” Some years later, Edson reported on his experiences following that meeting: " While passing through a large field I was stopped about midway of the field.

Since 1646, this procession was organised by the " Sodales ", a religious confraternity, that organised a crossway during Advent time, under the leadership of the Norbertine monk Jacob Clou.

Writing on the Wall, her memoir about this psychoanalysis, was written concurrently with Trilogy and published in 1944 ; in 1956 it was republished with Advent, a journal of the analysis, under the title Tribute to Freud.

Massillon soon gained a wide reputation as a preacher and was selected to be the Advent preacher at the court of Versailles in 1699.

Cloud's design in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children was one of the most difficult to make to look realistic.

Although Nomura stated that Cloud was a more upbeat character in Final Fantasy VII than in Advent Children, he chose a Cloud whose personality would be more familiar to gamers, and the script was written to explain the reasons for his state of mind.

" His development in Advent Children was praised by Todd Douglass Jr. from DVD Talk as one of the best parts from the film.

When the Mass of Paul VI was issued in 1969, most Ambrosian-Rite priests began to use the new Roman Missal ( only omitting the Agnus Dei ), the Roman Lectionary, and the Roman Calendar ( with its four-week Advent ).

On 20 March 2008 the new Ambrosian Lectionary, superseding the 1976 experimental edition, and covering the whole liturgical year, was promulgated, coming into effect from the First Sunday of Advent 2008 ( 16 November 2008 ).

The ring or wheel of the Advent wreath of evergreens decorated with candles was a symbol in northern Europe long before the arrival of Christianity.

Other evidence suggests that the Advent wreath was not invented until the 19th century.

A small candle was lit successively every weekday during Advent.

In Medieval times advent was a fast during which people's thoughts were directed to the expected second coming of Christ ; but in modern times it has been seen as the lead up to Christmas, and in that context Advent Wreath serves as a reminder of the approach of the feast.

Though the first Advent Christian Association was founded in Salem, Massachusetts in 1860, the church's formation is rooted in the adventist teachings began by Baptist preacher William Miller of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Jonathan Cummings ( 1817 – 1894 ), a disciple of Miller who reset Miller's prediction of Christ's coming as 1854, was also influential on the individuals who founded the Advent Christian Association.

This latter was issued by Coffey from his Advent Press imprint.

Bede wrote homilies not only on the major Christian seasons such as Advent, Lent, or Easter, but on other subjects such as anniversaries of significant events.

There is here given the whole service for every Sunday and week-day, the proper antiphons, responsories, hymns, and especially the course of daily Scripture-reading, averaging about twenty verses a day, and ( roughly ) arranged thus: for Advent, Isaiah ; Epiphany to Septuagesima, Pauline Epistles ; Lent, patristic homilies ( Genesis on Sundays ); Passion-tide, Jeremiah ; Easter to Whitsun, Acts, Catholic epistles and Apocalypse ; Whitsun to August, Samuel and Kings ; August to Advent, Wisdom books, Maccabees, Prophets.

Christian hymns are often written with special or seasonal themes and these are used on holy days such as Christmas, Easter and the Feast of All Saints, or during particular seasons such as Advent and Lent.

* For Western Christians, Advent usually begins on a Sunday during the last week of November.

* Earliest day on which the Feast of Christ the King can fall, while November 26 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Sunday before Advent.

Since the 17th century, the Roman Catholic ecclesiastic year has started on the first day of Advent, the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day ( 30 November ).

* Earliest day on which National Day of Mourning or Volkstrauertag can fall, observed two Sundays before the first of Advent.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming ( Advent ) of Jesus Christ.

* August 7 – American Baptist minister William Miller preaches his first sermon on the Second Advent of Christ in Dresden, New York, launching the Advent Movement in the United States.

It ends on the Saturday before the First Sunday of Advent.

However, Church New Year ( Indiction ) traditionally begins on September 1 ( Old Style or New Style ), rather than the first Sunday of Advent.

It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday, called Levavi.

The Eastern churches ' equivalent of Advent is called the Nativity Fast, but it differs both in length and observances and does not begin the church year, which starts instead on .< ref >

Pope Paul VI promulgated the revised rite of Mass with his Apostolic Constitution Missale Romanum of 3 April 1969, setting the first Sunday of Advent at the end of that year as the date on which it would enter into force.

Choral Evensong ( or, on red-letter days, Holy Mass ) is currently sung on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays during full term, in addition to which the Choir sings for Gaudy Evensongs, for Special Feasts and Ceremonies ( including the All Souls Requiem, Remembrance, the Advent and Christmas Carol Services, Ash Wednesday, and the Passiontide service ) and for frequent concerts, commercial events, foreign tours, CD recordings and broadcasts.

While in prison, he secretly began to say Mass and wrote letters, reflections on Advent, on Christmas, and other spiritual subjects, which were smuggled out of the prison before his trial.

* An Anglican meditation on Delp's Advent sermons from Anglicans Online

The Alma Redemptoris Mater ( Loving Mother of our Savior ) is recited in the Catholic Church at Compline only from the first Sunday in Advent until the Feast of the Purification ( February 2 ).

Before the reforms until the present, the term tempus per annum has been used to describe the season of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary that is not part of Advent or Christmastide, and so tempus per annum extends from Matins on 3 February through None on the last Saturday before Advent.

Sony later announced Final Fantasy VII Advent Children ( Limited Edition Collector's Set ) for release in North America on February 20, 2007.

On February 17, 2012, Madison Dearborn Partners and the Pritzker family sold the company to Advent International and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.

:* Alma Redemptoris Mater ( Advent through February 2 )

For example, Alma Redemptoris Mater is sung from the first Sunday in Advent until February 2.

Formerly it was recited at compline only from the first Sunday in Advent until the Feast of the Purification ( February 2 ).

The OVA was included in the North American " Limited Edition Collector's Set " of Advent Children, released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on February 20, 2007.

For instance, from Advent to 2 February, the first of these additional prayers was in honour of Saint Mary and the other was either that " Against the persecutors of the Church " or that " For the Pope ".