Episode Transcript
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Welcome back everyone, I'm Dylan.
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I'm Gabriel.
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We're fifth year seminarians at Holy Spirit Seminary.
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And for the second week of Advent,
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we thought we would do gingerbread houses.
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So I've never done one of these, Gabriel.
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Have you ever, you've never built a gingerbread house before?
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All brand new.
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Now I have done two years of civil engineering at university,
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so I think it gives me a bit of an edge.
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That is unfair!
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We've got a lot of different decorating things here.
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What are they, Dylan?
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I recognise M&M's.
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I recognise jelly beans.
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These look cool!
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This one looks like a little Christmas tree.
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I think it looks not as good as our Christmas tree.
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No. No. That's for sure. That's for sure.
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But look, they look like stars, actually,
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not going to lie.
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That's cool, yeah.
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All right.
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And we've got lollies.
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And we have musks guys, we have musks.
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We've got all the good stuff to hold up our house.
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Oh, you can build an old Queenslander with these!
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You can prop them up and,
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nah, that's not going to work.
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That'd be very cool.
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The Holy Spirit reminded me, Dylan, before we got started,
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to actually read the instructions.
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Lay it flat on a surface,
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quickly position it on the tray,
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put the icing on it.
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I reckon we can do this, Gabriel.
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I reckon between the two of us,
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we can figure out how to build a gingerbread house.
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I like it. It's pretty good. That's pretty good.
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That's what step one done.
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I think we're doing pretty well.
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We've got the main four walls of the house up.
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Okay, that's progress,
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I think that's how you actually have to build the house.
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I'm no builder, but I reckon this house is pretty all right.
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When did your house become a Christmas house?
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Like at what point during Advent?
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We're in week two of Advent now.
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Yeah.
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So, like is the tree up yet?
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No, we were really the nine days before Christmas type people.
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Oh, I see, yeah.
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We'd start decorating during that O Antiphon period.
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That's where you really got into the spirit of it all.
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Because I think up until that point,
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like all these weeks of Advent,
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at least in my family, it was that focus on the second coming,
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like this preparation for Christ's return as well.
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Honestly, as a kid, I think we had a really good balance
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between the preparation for Christ's second coming and also for
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the actual birth of Christ himself.
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We were a big Christmas family, so December 1st.
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Straight away.
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Christmas stuff starts coming out, but it came in waves.
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Wave one.
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You've got wave one was
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mum would get the boxes down out of the roof.
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Wave two.
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The boxes were full of the kid drawings,
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the little ceramic angel,
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you know, like the little things all the kids had made.
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Yep. yep.
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And she would have us put them all up.
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So, that was always fun.
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So, our house
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would kind of start looking like my house is now, I suppose,
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where you like, you just start putting all the decorations out.
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And then the tree would go up.
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The tree was always kept somewhere else,
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like at grandparents house.
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So it was sort of like when dad went to get the tree,
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that was exciting.
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Because mum would always be like,
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"When are you getting the tree? Why can't we get the tree today?"
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Yeah, okay.
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She loved Christmas.
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So that was always cool.
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It was like a progressive decoration.
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So every couple weeks you get another thing up.
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And by the end of it,
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your house would just,
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the house was just covered in Christmas, Christmas stuff.
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Wow. That is pretty full out.
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Yeah, and it stayed up like,
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I don't think mum knew she was keeping it up till Epiphany,
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but she was,
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she was definitely keeping it up for ages.
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Yep.
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Because Christmas was fun.
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Now I've sort of learnt,
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that's the beauty of Advent.
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Yep.
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To treat it
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almost like a mini Lent in a sense.
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Not just preparing the house for decorating
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or not just buying the presents,
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but how is your soul getting prepared
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for Christ himself to come?
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I'm losing bits in my house.
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Oh wait, that is mayhem!
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You can tell Gabriel and I are very different people.
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An insight into our brains.
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I'm just decking it out.
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Look for something that was very,
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that had completely no order in it,
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you've managed to clean it up a bit.
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Trust the process they say.
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I think we're at a stage Dylan, where the house
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is pretty much done.
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I think so, Gabriel.
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Final touches.
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My gingerbread house is done.
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Gabriel's got a lot of thought in his,
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like everything Gabriel does, got a lot of thought.
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I like he's got little faces on this side.
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I've made a little cross on this side.
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Which fell apart, so I put a musk stick there instead.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
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A festive house,
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better than a manger.
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Better than like a filthy stable.
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Folks, which one has it?
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Who wins?
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The nice attempt at being ordered,
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or the order that came through the chaos?
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Chaos!
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Christmas and Advent are all about
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God's chaotic amazing plan for us.
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That's why my house should win.
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Oh, that's a good little sell.
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The reason that Jesus came into this world
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wasn't just to be a baby,
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but to be our savior.
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So, my house reminds us of that fact.
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Thank you guys for joining us as we built our gingerbread houses.
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Let us know which ones you reckon look the best.
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Which ones might be tastier than the other.
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And we hope that
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you might be able to do something like this yourselves.
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Get the kids around and try and
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talk to them in the same way we've been trying to talk to each other
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on what Christmas traditions are their favorite in your family,
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what they enjoy doing, what they see Christmas is about,
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how they're using Advent to prepare themselves.
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Yeah, and we've built our little houses here
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and second week of Advent, it's time to start putting the decorations up.
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It's time to put up the tree,
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it's time to get your house looking as good as mine.
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You can settle for Gabriel's if you want.
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I'll let that slide.
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It's time to get our houses ready for Christmas.
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That's true.
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Second week of Advent. Let's go.
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Yep. Yep. Physical preparation, spiritual preparation.
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Wish you the best.
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Happy Advent. God bless.
