Advent's Lent-like waiting period is exactly why churches do not immediately whip out Christmas trees at the end of Ordinary ...

Joy does not simply happen to us, writes Deacon Franz Fruehwald. It grows where there is space cleared by humility, softened ...

In some denominations, Advent is also celebrated by the lighting of an Advent wreath, which represents Jesus coming as a ...

Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Vestal has held wreath-making workshops for 25 years Advent comes from the Latin word for arrival or coming: adventus Advent wreaths contain evergreens arranged in a ...

As your servant St. Francis prayed on a long-ago day, “Make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — Church members stopped by to pick up the wreaths they’d ordered for the coming Advent season — OK, so they were cardboard drink holders filled with Advent-themed beers and topped with ...

WILKES-BARRE — “At least it’s round,” 13-year-old Patrick Franckiewicz of Wilkes-Barre said, sharing a grin with his dad as they added fresh greenery to their hand-crafted Advent wreath. “We got that ...

When he was a child, Bill Amburgey’s family had an Advent wreath. It was traditional, he said, and looked “not a thing like this.” With hot glue gun in hand, Amburgey, in jeans and black T-shirt, his ...

As Advent approaches, families bring out their boxes of Christmas decorations and set out the Advent wreath. But consider a ...

The weeks leading up to Christmas are typically a time of anticipation and preparation for Christians, but for some immigrant ...

In worship, one common pattern for many years has been to use an Advent wreath, candles and themes of “Hope, Peace, Joy and Love” for the four Sundays before the day of Christmas itself and a Christ ...

Despite 2025's global wars and crises, the season of Advent reveals how hope endures through the darkness, drawing on ...