Ways to make Advent meaningful

Let someone go in front of you in line at the store and strike up a conversation with them.
Participate in a giving tree or some other opportunity to adopt a family or child who will otherwise not receive any gifts this Christmas.
Serve lunch at a local soup kitchen.
Attend a local Nativity pageant.
Offer to pet sit for family or neighbors who are traveling over the holidays.
Bake Christmas cookies and deliver to a home-bound neighbor.
Offer hot cocoa and cookies to the garbage collector or mail carrier.
Offer to cover a coworker’s shift so they can spend more time with family.
Gather a group of friends from your parish or neighborhood and go Christmas caroling at a nursing home.
Pray for a friend, a colleague, or family member and let them know they are in your thoughts.
Take flowers to a local cemetery and leave them on a grave anonymously.
Send Christmas cards to soldiers on deployment.
Send a care package to a friend or family member who has moved away.
Sign up for Angel Tree and bring comfort to a child with a parent in prison.
Invite a friend to attend Christmas Mass with you.