Despite 2025's global wars and crises, the season of Advent reveals how hope endures through the darkness, drawing on ...

The Christian season of Advent, which begins this Sunday, is a four-week period of preparation for Christmas. Advent's themes ...

The more we embody the Holy One, who negotiates and arbitrates among all peoples and across all cultures and nations, the ...

“Dear friends, Advent is the season of the presence and expectation of the eternal. For this very reason, it is in a ...

Growing up in my family meant a steady flow of house guests throughout the year. While it was mostly old friends and relatives, even the occasional exchange student, college student on a choir tour, ...

The first Advent Sunday of the year was marked over the weekend, with households across Estonia lighting candles to celebrate ...

The first weeks of Advent focus more on the Lord’s second coming in glory than on his first coming at Bethlehem. The Gospel ...

In a moment full of love and warmth, Queen Mary and King Frederik lit up candles to celebrate the first Sunday of Advent.The ...

Sunday kicks off the first Sunday of Advent, starting both the festive season and a new church year. In churches across the ...

Here’s a quick explanation of what Advent means for Christians and Catholics, and the origins behind some other Christmas ...

The lack of church decor also teaches about the penitential nature of the season. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, the ...

PRAYER: Gracious Father, we pray, this day for the grace for the ability to be agents of justice and mercy, so that we may be ...