"Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man." Let the hills sing for joy together before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge ...

The fourth and final Sunday of Advent in 2025 will be on Sunday, December 21st. Advent is the season in which believers eagerly anticipate the celebration of Christ’s birth. Reading, prayer, and ...

The Advent season is a special time in the Church to prepare for the celebration of Christmas. Unfortunately, its not always easy to keep the peaceful spirit of Advent in our hearts as the world ...

Embrace the season with peaceful Advent prayers that invite calm and joy into your holiday preparations. Join us in in prayer: "Lord, as we await the celebration of Your birth, fill our hearts with ...

"To you, O Lord, I lift my soul." On this First Sunday of Advent, Catholics throughout the world are invited to sing this same psalm refrain. Do we mean it? As we prepare to celebrate the Incarnation, ...

Advent means “to come to” or “toward” and is filled with a sense of expectation and hope. But most years, we get too busy, scattered, and jaded to allow the season to have a life of its own. In this ...

This prayer by Pope Benedict XVI asks God for the grace of wisdom during the Advent season, that we may be open to God's truth. It is not easy to know the truth, whether it is the truth behind the ...

Before I became a Catholic, I had no idea what Advent meant. It was just another one of those weird, mysterious, Catholic words for a time in the year before Christmas. Nowadays, I appreciate it more ...

Find today’s readings here. Once every six or seven years, when Christmas falls on a Monday, we have the shortest Advent possible and the Fourth Sunday of Advent, as it does this year, falls on ...

See the Church’s seasons through the eyes of the Church rather than those of the world. A young Sri gathers a piece of hay to add to Christ’s manger for a good deed as part of Advent activities to ...

Advent is one of my favorite liturgical seasons. While it is penitential, the element of joyful expectation for Christmas really shines through the tone of the liturgy. It reminds me of the final ...