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 ...

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The three purple candles will be lit on the first, second and fourth Sunday of Advent. The pink candle will be lit on the third Sunday of Advent, known as Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete means ‘to ...

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 ...

Advent, a four-week season leading up to Christmas ... s candle” and signals that Jesus is coming. On the second Sunday, a candle is lit to celebrate faith. This is based on the everlasting ...

We are gearing up for an oncoming slalom of holidays in the days ahead. That includes Advent. Here’s what you should know about observing Advent, traditions of the season and more. Advent, from ...

As the season of Advent draws to a close, four local clergy have offered their perspectives of the importance of Advent as it ...

The first Sunday of Advent is always four Sundays before Christmas ... It is also a time of preparation when Christians think about the second coming of Christ and what they need to do to be ...

This Sunday marks the Fourth Sunday of Advent, the final week in the preparatory ... and political exhaustion," Johnston said. "Late Second Temple Judaism had expanded God's commandments into ...