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 ...

The oldest document in which we find the length and exercises of Advent mentioned with anything like clearness, is a passage in the second book ... was called the first Sunday, and so on with ...

In the Christian liturgical calendar, Advent is the period of prayerful preparation leading up to Christmas Day. It is a season of waiting.

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 ...