"Christmas Eve, or La Vigilia, was always a time of restraint ... Perhaps the most unusual and unexpected Advent and Christmas food tradition is the Japanese custom of eating KFC during the ...

NORAD also has an online tracker for children to watch Santa travel across the world in real-time. This year’s website launched on December 1, and it currently shows a village in the North Pole and a ...

A Charlie Brown Christmas took from a number of Peanuts strips, but this 1961 storyline was the biggest inspiration ...

I’ve mainlined carols in minor keys and sent out cards until the hideous cost of stamps ran me dry – but I’m more of an Advent person, and for me, that culminates in Christmas Eve ...

The Fourth Sunday of Advent will be celebrated and Jeannie Howard and Joan Hiltebeital will serve as readers. On Christmas Eve, St. John’s will hold a Candlelight Service at 7 pm. Pastor Nichole ...

In our last issue, I wrote about how we (many of us, at least) celebrate Christmas in Sweden. I went through it all, from Dec. 1 and Swedish Public Service’s advent calendar TV show, through the ...

It is officially Christmas Eve Eve which of course means less than 48 hours to December 25th.It also signifies the final two ...

Generally the tree is not decorated until late Christmas Eve as Advent is still a season of penance, if not as filled with sorrow as Lent is. However, some families find the preparation for Mass ...

The 12th day after Christmas Day is traditionally celebrated as the Feast of the Epiphany, but was known in Ireland as ...

The children of First Presbyterian Church in Kalispell every December decorate a Christmas tree in the church's sanctuary. The around 9-foot tree gifted to the church by an attendee boasts more ...