In the liturgical cycle, each Sunday of Advent is associated with a virtue, such as hope, peace, joy, and love. Here, we share a prayer to do with your family. The Fourth Sunday of Advent focuses ...

This is one of the central questions we ask during the time we spend in prayer, as we listen for the ... RELATED: To subscribe to these Advent reflections, sign up here and check "Digital ...

Four weeks of Advent leading up to Christ Incarnate’s entry into the ... Then the third week: Joy! Gaudete Sunday. Yes, let us rejoice! Rejoice in the coming of Our Savior, an event promised for ...

"And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the ...

From 17 December, the series of liturgical prayers known as the Advent “O” antiphons (most familiar from the hymn “O come, O come, Emmanuel”) have been fostering an increase in Christian expectation.

Pope Benedict XVI Saint John Paul II offered a beautiful prayer for this season of hopeful anticipation: O Mother of our Advent, be with us and see to it that he will remain with us in this ...

JONATHAN ROUMIE ON FAITH AND PRAYER LIFE DURING ADVENT AND ALWAYS ... It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve. In 2023, with Christmas on a Monday, Advent ...

Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas each year ... The purple candles symbolize the prayer, penance and preparatory sacrifices and goods works undertaken during this time.

Each Advent season we hear it sung ... add to their Christmas envelope what they would usually donate on the fourth Sunday of December so that budgets stay on track. Christmas Preparations ...

As we arrive on the cusp of the celebration of Christmas, the readings from the Fourth Sunday of Advent set the stage for the birth of Jesus. The Advent season begins by reminding us that we look to ...

It can be a challenge, too, to shift from this Fourth Sunday of Advent into Christmas mode in ... Can you craft prayer texts that pray for the grace to remember Christ’s presence with us every ...

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