Each Sunday during Advent, we’ll share a reflection to help you deepen your spiritual experience and contemplate the mysteries of the season and the coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Merry Christmas!

All Advent Reflections 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 ...

Advent is a period of reflection, joy and hope for peace. Here's what happens during Advent and why there are pink and purple candles.

Advent is a peculiar season, one that might only be known by those who attend liturgical churches that closely follow the Christian calendar. Some people put up Christmas decorations and trees ...

Historians have tracked the first formal Advent celebrations to northern Italy, where churchgoers observed a weeks-long preparation for Christmas that involved fasting, prayer, and reflection on ...

In her new devotional, Mary’s Voice: Advent Reflections to Contemplate the Coming of Christ, she offers a dynamic portrait of the woman at the center of the Incarnation, highlighting her ...

Advent Reflections. EWTN Celebrate each week of Advent by listening to the personal reflections of insightful priests speaking from St. Catherine’s Dominican Church in Newry, ...

Advent 2024 starts on Sunday. Dec. 1. Here's what Christians do during Advent, how long it lasts and how it's different from Christmas.

Advent is upon us again: The time when the dhurch prepares to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. If you belong to a congregation that follows the Revised Common Lectionary, then the lessons ...

‘Joy to the World’: You may not realize that your favorite Christmas carol was based on the 98th Psalm and wasn’t intended to be sung on the holiday.