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Advent

Spend this Advent season with the saints

Advent prepares us for Jesus' coming at Christmas and for his coming into our lives afresh. And no one knows how to get ready to welcome Christ better than the saints.
Lent

Fully entering into the Triduum

During the Sacred Triduum -- the days of Holy Thursday through Easter Sunday -- the strangest thing will occur. Millions of Christians throughout the world will gather to honor the humiliation, torture and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Lent

Lenten regulations for fasting and abstinence

Here are the Church regulations for fasting and abstinence during Lent:
Christmas

Listen once again

A woman in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults admitted that she had almost no knowledge of Christianity until she met her husband-to-be. In fact, she said, the only thing she knew about Jesus when she was growing up was what she had heard in a few Christmas songs.
Christmas

Where to find the Lord on Christmas

Are you looking for the Lord this Christmas? Then consider casting your gaze closer to home than you might at first feel inclined to do, the Gospel of John seems to suggest in the immensely thought-provoking and highly familiar Gospel reading heard this Christmas Day during Masses in Catholic churches.
Advent

Advent hymn: ‘What Child Is This?’ and ‘Child of the Poor’

The hymns we hear during Advent are one of the season's greatest consolations.
Advent

Advent week four: We are called

These last few days of Advent draw us further into preparations, celebrations and "must do" activities. We might be feeling mighty frazzled, perhaps pulled in myriad directions, afraid we won't get it all done.
Advent

How Pope Francis views Advent’s call to hope

Advent is a "continuous call to hope," says Pope Francis. It seems, then, that a key aim of this pre-Christmas season is to focus attention on hope's immense importance for everyone.
Advent

‘O Come, O Come,’ everyone

Ever since I became a mom -- more than 20 years and four kids ago -- the Advent and Christmas season has taken on a whole different perspective for me. That perspective has opened up the meaning of the season for me and brought me closer to Mary in a mother-to-mother kind of way.
Christmas

USPS ‘Virgin and Child’ stamp features one of world’s most revered images

Every two years the U.S. Postal Service issues a traditional first-class Christmas stamp showing Mary and Jesus, and this year's stamp features an oil-on-panel painting from the first half of the 16th century titled "Virgin and Child."
Advent

Advent hymn: ‘Lo How A Rose E’er Blooming’

The 500-plus-year-old German Advent hymn, "Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming," is not one I grew up singing in church. I had never even heard it until indie musician Sufjan Stevens released his box set "Songs for Christmas" in 2006.
Advent

Second Week of Advent: We belong to the One who is and was and is to come

The image of John the Baptist in today's Gospel stands in stark contrast to the secular holiday images that bombard us from every side during this season.
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