How can we make the season of Advent more vibrant to ourselves and to those we encounter during the fun glitz of the secular Christmas holiday season? In the Call Me Catholic Countdown, Peggy lists the top five ways we can honor and model the spirit of Advent more colorfully this month.

Fr. German Sanchez, Chaplain of the Catholic French Speaking Community in Los Angeles and Orange Counties and pastor of the tri-lingual parish St. Sebastian in West Los Angeles, discusses how advent is celebrated in other cultures.

Listeners are invited to call in with their questions or comments about multi-cultural advent traditions.

In Chatting with Catholics, Peggy takes her microphone to a parish where they are gathering Christmas gifts for less fortunate families and asks the donors how they went about shopping for the family they chose to sponsor.