In the Christian church calendar, Advent is a period of preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ at Christmas and a preparation for the Second Coming of Christ. Advent begins ...

And each gift is important to the building up of the body of Christ. So ... the height and depth of divine love for us. The second week of Advent teaches us to call upon the name of Jesus ...

Beginnings matter; writers know that beginnings matter. St Mark knew that when he wrote, The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ. It is not the beginning we expect. No Christmas story, no baby ...

The Easter season offers us the opportunity to let ourselves be perplexed and even to doubt as we wait for the good news to ...

Not many years before that, namely in 567, the second Council of ... feast of the birth of Jesus Christ. The Greek Church still continues to observe the fast of Advent, though with much less ...

The three purple candles will be lit on the first, second and fourth Sunday of Advent. The pink candle ... It symbolises the birth of Christ and the change in the colour of the season.