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 ...

As of this past Sunday, liturgical churches have entered the Season of Advent. “Advent” means arrival or coming and the focus becomes the arrivals or comings of Jesus. One such coming is as a baby ...

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 ...

Some of the year's best Advent calendars still have a little inventory left. We've tracked the year's top 50 Advent calendars, broken out by different areas, as well as separated by in and out of ...