Blessed Advent

by Jeffrey Miller November 28, 2010November 28, 2010

written by Jeffrey Miller November 28, 2010November 28, 2010

Five years ago I decided to create my own Advent Wreath graphic instead of just using the normal animated gif that I used previously. If you would like it for your own blog you can use the html code below which uses some homepage server space that won’t effect the bandwidth for my blog. I will replace the graphic each week so that it correctly shows the number of candles that should be lit. On Christmas I will change it to another graphic I created for Christmastide.

Additionally underneath my Advent graphic on my left side I have created a JavaScript that gives a countdown to Christmas. If you want to do the same thing you can insert this script into your blog template with the following code underneath where you place the graphic. Though WordPress.com users would be out of luck since they don’t allow JavaScript.

<br /> <script language="JavaScript"> function eventcount() { var now = new Date(); var message = ""; var event = new Date("Dec 25 2010 00:00:01"); var seconds = (event - now) / 1000; var minutes = seconds / 60; var hours = minutes / 60; var days = hours / 24; if ( (days%1)<.5) days++; days = Math.round(days); if (hours< 0 && hours >= -24) message = "Merry Christmas; Christ is born!"; else if (days > 0) message = "Only "+days+" praying day"+ (days>1?'s':'')+ " till Christmas!"; document.write("</p> <p>"+message+"</p> <p>"); } eventcount(); </script><br /> <br />

Jeffrey Miller

Religious Beliefs and F/SF

55 comments

JACK November 28, 2009 - 3:22 pm

I will add these to my blog, GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO (http://virtualchapel.blogspot.com) tomorrow.

Thanks for sharing!

Have a blessed Advent and Christmas!

Ellyn November 28, 2009 - 3:23 pm

As in years past: THANK YOU!!!

JACK November 28, 2009 - 3:23 pm

I will add these to my blog, GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO (http://virtualchapel.blogspot.com) tomorrow.

Thanks for sharing!

Have a blessed Advent and Christmas!

Elena@My Domestic Church November 28, 2009 - 5:07 pm

Oh goodie! I look forward to this every year!

Helen November 28, 2009 - 5:20 pm

Thank you for the advent wreath and countdown.

Catholic with Attitude November 28, 2009 - 5:23 pm

FANTASTIC! I’ve looked around everywhere for this. A pray answered! Happy Advent!

Deo volente November 28, 2009 - 6:34 pm

Thanks for the Advent Wreath, Jeff. I’ve linked back to your blog! Hat Tip!

Laus Tibi Christi!
D.v.

Ron Rolling November 28, 2009 - 7:01 pm

thank you for the small but great service you provide with this graphics. May your preparation for the birth of our Savior be fruitful.

Kelly Thatcher November 28, 2009 - 7:34 pm

As always, thank you so much, Jeff!

Barb Szyszkiewicz, sfo November 28, 2009 - 8:50 pm

Thank you!! It wouldn’t be Advent without this!

vee8 November 29, 2009 - 2:19 am

Thanks for sharing!

Coffee Catholic November 29, 2009 - 3:05 am

How lovely!! Thanks so much ~ this is a great way to share Advent with everyone that visits blogs.

The wreath is working on my blog but the text about “X praying days left” isn’t working. I wonder what I did wrong?

WillyJ November 29, 2009 - 3:21 am

Great, I also used it last year. Thanks again.

Joe November 29, 2009 - 5:02 am

Many thanks for the gif, that I have included on my sidebar for the Season!

Gregory Thaumaturgas November 29, 2009 - 11:27 am

I’m adding both to my blog (http://www.bayareacatholic.com/)! Thank you very much Jeff 🙂

~G.T.

Ruthann Piepenburg November 29, 2009 - 12:30 pm

Thank you for the “living” gif. I have pasted it onto my profile page on Ravelry, an online “community” of fiber people. There is so much blasphemy and misuse of God’s name there that your little candle will allow me to protest this silently. I’m spreading the word to other Catholics on Ravelry.

P.S. On my Mac I most certainly CAN type the Greek letters I see in the picture: δελβα

Christine the Soccer Mom November 29, 2009 - 1:47 pm

Thanks for setting this up for us each year, Jeff. May God bless you in this Advent season. 🙂

Jean November 29, 2009 - 3:27 pm

Thanks, Jeff! I was hoping you would do this again this Advent season and am grateful that you did. I like having this beautiful wreath on my blog. God bless you!

Jean November 29, 2009 - 3:31 pm

Thanks, Jeff! I was hoping you would do this again this Advent season — I always look forward to putting up this beautiful wreath.

God bless you during this holy season!

Suzanne November 29, 2009 - 5:53 pm

Thank you for the graphic.

Ruthann, I have heard some negative things like that about Ravelry before. So unfortunate.

DMinor November 29, 2009 - 7:03 pm

Thanks for the graphic! It is now adorning the minor premise.

Karinann November 29, 2009 - 7:40 pm

Thanks Jeff.
I was hoping you would do this again.
Have a Blessed Advent!

Bernice Marie Cecile November 30, 2009 - 7:35 am

Thank you Jeff for allowing us to use your Advent Graphic again. It’s a beacon of light, no pun intended, for many as a witness to their faith. God Bless you.

Sherry November 30, 2009 - 8:34 am

Thank you!

David Francisco November 30, 2009 - 8:51 am

Thanks for the scripts.

LarryD November 30, 2009 - 10:28 am

Thanks Jeff. A blessed Advent season for you and your family!

Vince C November 30, 2009 - 10:46 pm

Thanks Jeff. I’ve added them to my blog, St. Joseph’s Workshop.

tmac December 1, 2009 - 2:02 am

Thanks for this beautiful graphic. I have copied it to my blog. May you have a blessed Advent season!

Judy December 1, 2009 - 1:53 pm

WOW! Thank you SO MUCH…I’d been wondering if I could find something like this!
God bless you for your generosity and thanks for enriching my Advent Season!

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Blue Shoe December 1, 2009 - 6:45 pm

Thanks, I’m going to use it as well.

Paul H December 6, 2009 - 8:54 am

Thanks for doing this again. I have added it to my parish’s web site, for what I think is at least the third year in a row.

Victor December 6, 2009 - 8:43 pm

I never did thank you in here for your Advent Wreath but I hope that your heart knows that I appreciate “IT” and most people who follow my blog.

God Bless and I also thank you for sharing,

Peace

hazel ong-archibald December 7, 2009 - 5:28 am

Thanks so much.I’ve just started my blog this April. A true blue newbie at all this but am learning from all you great sifus out there. Have a blessed Advent + Christmas

Paul H November 28, 2010 - 1:18 am

As in years past, thank you! I am very surprised that no other Catholic blog or web site provides something like this (at least not that I have been able to find).

Karin November 28, 2010 - 9:45 am

Thanks again for providing this again this year, Jeff- although I too am having some difficulty in getting the countdown to show. The code copies but it doesn’t appear on the blog.
Have a blessed Advent!

Deo volente November 28, 2010 - 9:51 am

Once again, thanks, Jeff. I am using your generous gift of the animated wreath again this year! Advent blessings!

Mac McLernon November 28, 2010 - 10:47 am

Thanks again, Jeff… BTW, for some reason the countdown isn’t working on my blog… do I have to do something?

Tony Layne November 28, 2010 - 3:41 pm

Last year, I added the wreath to my blog, Outside the Asylum, and was hoping you would bring it out again this year. Thank you very much indeed, Jester!

(I did link the image back to your page, which exhausted my limited HTML skills ….)