The pink candle lit on Gaudete Sunday symbolizes joy at the approaching birth of baby Jesus. In our article on the Second Sunday of Advent, we explore the meaning of the purple candle and its ...

cooking meals together, baking cookies, batch after batch. Meals at Thanksgiving and, yes, especially come Christmastime. Our boys out on the lawn beneath the maples playing catch. Oh, those years ...

The First Sunday of Advent invites us to be alert and ready for Christ's arrival, while the Second Sunday reinforces the idea of spiritual preparation, asking for forgiveness and reflecting on our ...

The oldest document in which we find the length and exercises of Advent mentioned with anything like clearness, is a passage in the second book ... was called the first Sunday, and so on with ...

Sunday, Dec. 8, is the Second Sunday of Advent. Mass reading: Baruch 5:1-9; Psalm 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6; Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11; Luke 3:1-6. In this Sunday’s Gospel, the curtain rises on the ...

Advent was a time of fasting and penance, much like the season of Lent (which takes place during the six weeks leading up to Easter Sunday). It served as a period of anticipation of the second ...

(Luke 3:4) The liturgical texts for this Second Sunday of Advent are a wealth of promises ... invitation to rise from despair and prepare to welcome the presence of God the Savior.

As we pass the second Sunday of Advent and the festive season begins to gather pace, it’s the perfect time to take a closer look at some Hungarian Advent traditions. From candle-lit wreaths and ...

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The blessing of an Advent Wreath takes place on the First Sunday of Advent or on the evening before the First Sunday of Advent. When the blessing of the Advent Wreath is celebrated in the home ...

and those old-fashioned altar railings.