Tag: Advent

A blessed, light-filled Advent to you! I am certainly enjoying my Advent wreath, the warm glow from the first-week, first-lit purple candle, and the...

Sunday Scripture readings, Dec. 18, 2022: Fourth Sunday of Advent 1) Is 7:10-14 Psalm 24:1-6 2) Rom 1:1-7 Gospel: Mt 1:18-24 A message for all of us...

These last few days of Advent draw us further into preparations, celebrations and "must do" activities. We might be feeling mighty frazzled, perhaps pulled...

Sunday Scripture readings, Dec. 11, 2022: Third Sunday of Advent 1) Is 35:1-6a, 10 Psalm 146:6-10 2) Jas 5:7-10 Gospel: Mt 11:2-11 Advent calls us to recognize...

Ever since I became a mom -- more than 20 years and four kids ago -- the Advent and Christmas season has taken on...

Advent is a "continuous call to hope," says Pope Francis. It seems, then, that a key aim of this pre-Christmas season is to focus...

Sunday Scripture readings, Dec. 4, 2022: Second Sunday of Advent 1) Is 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 2) Rom 15:4-9 Gospel: Mt 3:1-12 Prophets would be...

Our motherhouse is located on a large property in a tiny village in rural France. With its old stone buildings, expansive pastures, flower gardens...

"All the leaves are brown. And the sky is gray." As we lean into another Advent, that opening line of "California Dreamin'" plays in my...

The 500-plus-year-old German Advent hymn, "Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming," is not one I grew up singing in church. I had never even...