Advent is the kind of season that has plenty of opportunity and yet there’s so much going on anyway that I usually battle fatigue by about a week in. There’s never a shortage of new Advent products, ...

Simple Advent, Abundant Life: Shift your gaze from the frenzy of the Christmas season to what is most essential in our lives with this new reflection series for Advent. Reading time: 60 seconds. Enter ...

Welcome to “An Advent Retreat,” four weeks of reflections on making this a holy season. Sébastien Bourdon, “The Presentation in the Temple,” c.1644 — depicting Jesus in the arms of Holy Simeon, a man ...

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 homilies that ...

Readings: Jer 33:14-16; Ps 25, R. To you, O Lord, I lift my soul.; 1 Thes 3:12—4:2; Gospel—Lk 21:25-28, 34-36 Today, the First Sunday of Advent, we begin the season of waiting and preparations both ...

Want a fun way to countdown the days before Christmas? Try an Advent Calendar! Some you can buy, some you can make, and one you can download from me here — a reading advent calendar to motivate ...

The question is posed in the poem “Ash Wednesday,” T. S. Eliot’s searing indictment of modernity’s spiritual sterility. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the voice Our culture ...

Advent is a criminally underrated liturgical season. It gets swallowed up in the pre-Christmas rush, and it's shorter and less intense than Lent, but it's a beautiful, quiet period worth marking.

This coming Sunday, the Catholic church will begin Advent, the season of spiritual preparation. Advent is the church’s way to prepare parishioners for the Christmas season. It’s a time to anticipate ...

Sitting in the dark helps us truly appreciate the light. As a child growing up in the Reformed Episcopal Church, the first day of Advent was lovely yet a little strange. At the evening church service, ...