Candy filled Advent calendars are fun, but a traditional Advent practice before and after Christmas can deepen the experience ...

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone ...

Many of us think of Advent as preparing for Christmas but Advent is about preparing for the second coming of Jesus at the end ...

Advent begins with a focus on the final, or Second Coming, of the Lord, when he will come again in glory to judge the living ...

Isaiah knew that Bethlehem would be the place that God would hem the garments of eternity. This “Prince of Peace” would one day be acquainted with the truest form of darkness imaginable—a darkness no ...

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

The second rationale could be linked to the content ... encyclical “Dilexit nos” on the human and divine love of Jesus Christ's heart. Could Pope Francis have offered his own ultimate keys ...

Sam Sawyer, S.J., editor-in-chief of America Media, returns to “Preach” to discuss his Advent homily series, designed to be ...

The signsalerting people to be prepared for a great future event are everywhere. The event could be something good or bad, ...

The term Advent is from "ad venire" in Latin and means "to come to." The Catholic church sees the season as "a time of ...

Vagaggini helps us to understand that each of the liturgical signs ... as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life” (Romans 6:4). Second ...

1232 The second Vatican Council restored for the ... All the more urgent is the Church's call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism.