Advent is the season of waiting. The four weeks preceding Christmas can be a time of preparation, of expectation. Maybe the promise of a better world. Maybe something wonderful is about to happen.

Today, the Third Sunday of Advent, is also the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. How appropriate to celebrate this fiesta of love and liberation while the church throughout the world is invited to ...

‘Take up the whole armor of God,’ says Ephesians 6:13, ‘so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.’ ...

A priest who has been serving a church in New York City will be moving to Birmingham to join the staff at Cathedral Church of the Advent in January. The Rev. Ben DeHart, who has been vicar of the ...

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(RNS) — If we take the Incarnation seriously, we have a responsibility to build a theology where all of humanity is assumed in the body of Jesus. (RNS) — Just ahead of the first Sunday of Advent this ...

The story of our salvation starts with forbidden fruit and ends with bread and wine at the Lord’s Table. On a snowy day in downtown Chicago, as the first day of Advent drew near, I sat with my ...

In his lifetime, Patrick Kavanagh considered it a dubious honour to be reckoned the best Irish poet since William Butler Yeats; he took it to mean “the second best Irish poet after Yeats.” Since ...

The sequence of lighting the candles on an Advent wreath is to light the first purple candle on the first Sunday of Advent. Then move clockwise and light a second purple candle for the second Sunday ...