So now when Fat Tuesday rolls around, I’m faced with a dilemma, my childhood memories haunting me: a little devil perched on ...

That’s what the Catholic school kids called the students who invaded their classrooms on Monday nights for PSR. (An acronym ...

The Greek Church still continues to observe the fast of Advent, though with much less rigor than that of Lent. It consists of forty days, beginning with November 14, the day on which this Church ...

'Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God ...

Advent, by contrast, in the Christian world is a special time of ... Judy Knotts is a parishioner of St. John Neumann Catholic Church, and former head of St. Gabriel's Catholic School and St ...

Advent is four weeks long and marks the beginning of the Christian year. The first Sunday of Advent is always four Sundays before Christmas, which means it could be as early as 27 November.

That season is called Advent. Both to celebrate and to educate about this holy season, the Women’s Society for Christian Service at Eureka First United Methodist Church hosted their first ...

I write liturgical songs, both music and words, and a few years ago I did a project centered on the Advent ... relying instead on the church bells’ call to prayer to measure the passing of each day.

which symbolizes the Church, because of the fruits almost countless seeds, and for the hope we place in the Resurrection. A special form of wreath is the Advent Wreath, lit each evening by a ...

as a Christian penitential season, Lent has not suffered the full fate of its sister, Advent. Society at large, as well as in many a church context, has simply come to see Advent as part of ...

Christian church services at Christmas include carol ... The deacons in the photograph are holding an icon of Mary and the infant Jesus. Advent is the period which leads up to Christmas.