Just as a Catholic who takes his faith seriously approaches Lent with an attitude of penance in anticipation of Easter, so too must we remember that Advent should likewise be regarded with a ...

There is something quietly revolutionary about waiting together. In a world that values individual achievement and personal spirituality, the season of Advent reminds us that our faith was never meant ...

French novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr famously wrote, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” On the surface, this may seem like an argument against change, a perfect complement ...

LONDON — The Pope’s chief liturgical official has called on all Catholic priests to start offering Mass ad orientem (facing east), beginning on the first Sunday of Advent. Guinean-born Cardinal Robert ...

We are brought to Christmas through a "gate" that in most church communities, is termed Advent. We are lifted by the elaborate decorations, the lighted scenes brighten many homes, and of course, there ...

The night is still dark, the city asleep and the church lit only by hundreds of candles is bursting with hundreds of people. At the stroke of six the priest and the ministrants is arriving via a ...

Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) – “Every year during the week before Christmas, we, the community of Catholic priests and religious in Uzbekistan, gather for two days of spiritual renewal and to exchange ...