Tag: Advent

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

An Advent tradition among Eastern Catholics has taken on a deeper meaning amid Russia's war on Ukraine. The Fast of St. Philip, also known as...

Today is the feast of St. Andrew, one of the first Apostles and patron saint of Scotland, Greece, Russia, and fishermen. The traditional St. Andrew...