This week we will celebrate both the Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Guadalupe, feasts that celebrate the human ...

As on the first Sunday of Advent, the candle color is purple. Let's review its meaning and the cultural adaptations it has had in Latin America and among Hispanics and Latinos in the United States, ...

In the past, the obligation to attend Mass on a transferred holy day of obligation was not transferred along with the feast ...

John says, “Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill ...

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 ...

Advent is a period of preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ at Christmas and a preparation for the Second Coming of Christ. Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas ...

What is the spirit of this Advent season? Where should our focus be ... As the wisdom of God is revealed in Christ, so we are to be guided by the same wisdom reflected in us, echoing in us. The second ...

This is what the Advent readings are all about: We recall God’s saving deeds — in the history of Israel and in the coming of Jesus. Our remembrance is meant to stir our faith, to fill us with ...

Repentance and reconciliation have a role to play in Lent as well as Advent. But the distinction between the two seasons ...

Each week during Advent has a specific meaning and relevance. In the first week, Catholics will light the first candle. This ...

Not many years before that, namely in 567, the second Council ... unless December 25 be a Sunday. We may therefore consider the present discipline of the observance of Advent as having lasted ...