During the liturgical season of Advent, many churches opt to display an Advent wreath as a way to mark the days and weeks leading up to Christmas and the birth of Jesus Christ. But what is an Advent ...

The word "advent" means "coming," and the month of December is the season of Advent where we wait expectantly and get our hearts ready for Christmas and the celebration of Christ's birth. A way to ...

There wouldn’t be Christmas without it, and yet many people move through the holidays with only the barest recognition that something vitally important to the Christian faith is going on. It’s Advent ...

Today starts Advent, the season of preparation for Christmas. Advent, which is marked by the four Sundays before that day, is celebrated mainly in traditional churches, especially Episcopal, Lutheran ...

Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Vestal has held wreath-making workshops for 25 years Advent comes from the Latin word for arrival or coming: adventus Advent wreaths contain evergreens arranged in a ...

The Advent wreath has been gone for a long time now. The wreath of artificial greenery and red berries is in my cedar chest, wrapped in white paper. The Styrofoam base disappeared about the same time ...

JOHN SARAKA CONTRIBUTING WRITER Our culture feels like it has a scarcity of time. We all seem so busy and rushed. It appears harder to find time to even eat, we do it on the run so often. One of the ...