GILBERTSVILLE — Join us at St. Luke Lutheran Church, Gilbertsville, for our 9:30 worship for the fourth Sunday in Advent. Minister Bobbie will lead us in worship. The fourth candle on the Advent ...

What is the spirit of this Advent season? Where should our focus be ... so we are to be guided by the same wisdom reflected in us, echoing in us. The second title that we are given to contemplate is ...

Tallinn Mayor Jevgeni Ossinovski (SDE) on Sunday lit the first Advent candle of this Christmas, in Town Hall Square (Raekoja plats). The mayor was joined by Dean Jaak Aus of the Estonian Evangelical ...

Tomaš, Zagreb Tourist Board Advent kicks off in the city’s main square, Ban Jelačić, where the season’s first candle is lit ... a bomb shelter during the Second World War and Croatian ...

THIS is a short Sunday Gospel: only six verses ... in the style of the prophets of old. Encountering the Advent wilderness with John, we, too, are supposed to prepare for our task of embodying the ...

Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas each year ... coming into the world and anticipation of his second coming. A fifth white candle is sometimes placed and lit in the middle ...

Advent started as a time for remembrance and a sign for Christians to be open and ready for the second coming of Christ and held to traditional items and events like a wreath with candles ...

The concept of the Advent calendar originated in Germany during the 19th century. Early Advent calendars were simple, often just a piece of chalk or a small candle for each day leading up to ...

Sam Sawyer, S.J., editor-in-chief of America Media, returns to “Preach” to discuss his Advent homily series, designed to be more cohesive than the usual week-to-week, stand-alone Sunday ...

In a circular released on Saturday, November 23, the celebration of the Second Sunday of Advent on December 8 will take precedence over the feast of the Immaculate Conception. “When there is a ...