Tag: Advent

The following is the full text of the Angelus address given by Pope Leo XIV Dec. 21, 2025, at St. Peter's Square. Dear brothers and...

Scripture readings for Dec. 21, 2025, Fourth Sunday of Advent Is 7:10-14  Ps 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6  Rom 1:1-7  Mt 1:18-24 It sounds so simple. This Sunday,...

WILMINGTON — The Padua Academy community gathered the week of Dec. 8 to celebrate the Advent season with a prayer service filled with music,...

Q: My favorite Advent hymn is "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel." I'm used to singing it all through Advent, but the new choir director...

By John Mulderig, OSV News Just about everyone enjoys a Christmas holiday with all the trimmings, including Santa's ho ho ho and Rudolph's red nose....

By Michelle Jones, OSV News We radiate the life of Jesus to the world to the extent that we live with the conviction that we...

Scripture readings for Dec. 14, 2025, Third Sunday of Advent Is 35:1-6a, 10  Ps 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10  Jas 5:7-10  Mt 11:2-11 It was for them a...

Q: My dad gives up chocolate every year for both Lent and Advent. I always tell him that this is weird and that we're...

Search the Scriptures, and except for the Holy Family, no person is more favored by God than St. John the Baptist. All four Gospels...

Scripture readings for Nov. 30, 2025, First Sunday of Advent Is 2:1-5  Ps 122: 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9  Rom 13:11-14  Mt 24:37-44 Since ancient times,...