Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After Halloween, everyone's attention quickly turns to Christmas. Among the traditions associated with the lead-up to Christmas is ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Wreaths, candles and calendars. These are sure signs of Advent for many Christian groups around the world. But what is Advent exactly? The word Advent derives from the Latin adventus, which means an ...

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. – Francis of Assisi "BETHLEHEM Candle" is the second purple candle during the second week of Advent ...

This last day of November ends another calendar month and moves us closer to December 21, the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year, when we will be plunged into deeper darkness. Meanwhile, ...

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 ...

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 ...