Home Tags Advent

Tag: Advent

Fourth Sunday of Advent: Believe the unbelievable, embrace the mystery

Scripture readings for Dec. 24, 2023, Fourth Sunday of Advent 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16  Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 27, 29  Rom 16:25-27  Lk 1:26-38 Believe...

Holy Cross School students mark Advent with Jesse Tree in Dover

To mark the beginning of Advent, students of Holy Cross School in Dover designed Jesse Tree ornaments that bear a symbol that represents an...

Even during hectic times, we can still ‘watch and wait’ coming...

By Amy Welborn, OSV News For Catholics, great feasts like Christmas don't come at us out of the blue: In the secular world, "Christmas" seems...

Advent is the perfect time for meditating on the words of...

Anyone who says evening prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours regularly recites the Magnificat from the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke....

Mary’s famous fiat reminds us what Advent means — Laura Kelly...

What if the best thing for us to do during Advent is not more, but less? When faced with the coming of Christ -- in...

Second Sunday of Advent: In our impatient society, Advent reminds us...

Sunday Scripture readings for Dec. 10, 2023, Second Sunday of Advent Is 40:1-5, 9-11  Ps 85:9-10-11-12, 13-14  2 Pt 3:8-14  Mk 1:1-8 In our impatient society,...

Lesson on delayed gratification provided for families in Advent — Scott...

When my sisters and I were young, my mother would spend all of Advent baking cookies and making candy. That may hardly seem remarkable;...

Question Corner: Are there rules for Catholics and Christmas trees?

Q: When I was a kid we put up the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve and took it down a day or two after...

Make the most of Advent by spending it with the...

By Bert Ghezzi Advent prepares us for Jesus' coming at Christmas and for his coming into our lives afresh. And no one knows how to...

In the darkest nights of our year it seems wonderful that...

Christina Rosetti’s poem, In the Bleak Midwinter, is a Christmas classic. “In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water...

Diocese