In some denominations, Advent is also celebrated by the lighting of an Advent wreath, which represents Jesus coming as a ...

Mumbai: The season of Advent that marks the countdown to Christmas is midway through. The observance began Nov 30 and will ...

Three candles burn now: hope, peace, and joy. Next week, we turn toward love, the culmination of everything Advent builds.

As your servant St. Francis prayed on a long-ago day, “Make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where ...

Advent calls us to stay vigilant in the present to the ways of Jesus, for we do not know when these things will occur.

In any case, although your pastor and choir director have the responsibility of planning the music for public parish Masses, ...

As the holiday season approaches, faith leaders in the Sonoma Valley are inviting their communities to embrace the spiritual and cultural traditions that define Hanukkah, Advent, and Christmas. From ...

PINK is the color of Mass vestments, as well as the Advent candle for Dec. 14, the Third Sunday of Advent, also called ...

The time before Christmas is called Advent, meaning 'coming' or 'waiting' in the language of the church. It is the first four weeks of the church year, in many ways with similarities to Ramadan before ...

First Presbyterian Church of Bentonville, 901 N.E. J St. will hold a special service, "Lessons and Carols," and light the third candle during the regular worship hour at 10:15 a.m. A Christmas brunch ...

An aspiring neurosurgeon at Brown University and a leader of a campus Republicans group were in a study group preparing for ...

From the week after Thanksgiving until the sixth night of January, the weary world pauses in its travails to celebrate the wonders of the last month of the year. December is truly a magical time full ...