The journey of the Advent season begins Sunday, Dec. 1.  Advent is a time of waiting, expecting, longing, watching, preparing ...

Advent, from “adventus” in Latin meaning “coming,” is the season encompassing the four Sundays and weekdays leading up to ...

It's almost time for the 2024 Advent season. Here's more about the traditions that lead up to the Christmas holiday and how ...

Advent in the Christian faith retains its deep religious meaning, but annual calendars are now popular inside and outside ...

We can look to the Old Testament to find encouragement through the life of King David and his place in the story of the ...

I, too, came to fear this darkness in the grip of a chronic illness, which nearly took my life in 2021, as sepsis raged ...

Ecclesiastes bears testimony to the reality that there is a specific time for everything—for planting and sowing; for crying ...

With the beginning of Advent Dec. 1, we begin preparations for the Christmas season. Having an Advent wreath in your home is ...

As we begin the countdown to celebrating the Lord's first coming into the world, we have hope in his light that brings truth ...

In the Christian liturgical calendar, Advent is the period of prayerful preparation leading up to Christmas Day. It is a season of waiting.

This Sunday, 1 December, to coincide with the first day of Advent, Bishop Fintan Monahan of Killaloe, and the Irish Catholic ...

Jews believe that God will send a Messiah to redeem his creation. They have waited in hope for that day to come. Christians ...