One way some Christian nonprofits mark the season is by offering free online daily devotionals on hope, peace, joy and love.

You sometimes hear about people being asked to delay receiving the sacraments because they are not performed at certain times of year--like Advent or Lent or Holy Week or Good Friday or other days.

With solemnity and joyous expectation, Christians across the Southland and around the world usher in the season of Advent on Sunday. The four-week season preceding Christmas is traditionally a time of ...

Every year, the Church reserves the Second and Third Sundays of Advent to introduce us to the person and preaching of St. John the Baptist. The Second Sunday usually presents his figure, while the ...

"John the Baptist appeared in the desert, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins" (Mark 1:4). This verse is from the Gospel of Mark, one of the three synoptic Gospels. The ...

As the great theologian Howard Thurman once wrote, “The light that shines is not the light of a distant star but the light ...

Although stores and radio stations begin blasting Christmas songs long before Thanksgiving, devout Christians don't celebrate ...

The 2022 season of Advent begins on Sunday, November 27, and lasts four weeks until Saturday, December 24. "In the Church worship, Advent is the four-Sunday season before Christmas that invites us to ...

We’re not awaiting a helpless baby, but a righteous and powerful judge. This unlovable figure is very much out of sync with our times, yet he is one of the foremost figures of Advent, at least in the ...