After Halloween, everyone's attention quickly turns to Christmas. Among the traditions associated with the lead-up to Christmas is Advent. Whether you celebrate the season with calendars, candles or ...

Advent, the season leading up to Christmas, is a time of preparation for the arrival of the Christ child in many Christian churches. There are four weeks, four Sundays of Advent, and this Sunday is ...

Have you heard of the “Cherry Tree Carol?” Bridget Retzloff, the curator of the Christmas exhibit Joy to the World!, explains the story behind this Christmas carol and how it relates to the largest ...

Advent, the time to prepare for Christmas, begins this Sunday as Christians will enter a time of reflection and preparation. Here's what to know about Advent. Advent is four weeks of prayer and ...

Four weeks of Advent leading up to Christ Incarnate’s entry into the world. Four weeks, each symbolized with a lighted candle, purple, purple, rose pink, purple. A time of waiting, a time of ...

One goal is to note the obvious tension between the sobering messages heard during the quiet weeks of Advent and the waves of joyful songs, sacred and secular, that now start before Thanksgiving and ...

This is perhaps the most challenging part of my attempt to commend an ancient model for observing Advent, this third week. The old recommendation of the church is to reflect in Advent on the “four ...

For the fourth week of Advent, the Marian Library has created a prayer card featuring one of our Nativities on the front and the Marianist prayer for Christmas on the back. And, to begin the new year ...