Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Christianity-Catholic and Protestant) Period of four weeks in which Christians prepare for Christmas and meditate on the end of all time. In Western churches, the first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of the Christian liturgical year.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Christianity-Catholic) Lady of Guadalupe Day commemorates the appearance of the Virgin Mary, Mexico’s patron saint, in Mexico City on December 12, 1531.