What captured my spirit and imagination about the passages this year are the pictures ... of Advent, the Joy Sunday, as some churches celebrate, we looked at the image of God in Christ healing ...

The best Christian artists, poets, and theologians take their themes from scripture and tradition, and when they employ archetypal images ... to Christ by signs that lend themselves to poetic ...

Piercing the darkness with Christ’s light is a concept even children can grasp. My kids’ favorite Advent activity (besides ... let the kids decorate it with pictures of the Nativity story.

A fifth, white candle known as the Christ candle ... modern Advent calendars typically start on December 1 and have small doors or boxes containing pictures, trinkets, or food like chocolate ...

(photo: Marinella Bandini / CNA) Marinella Bandini/CNA World December 4, 2023 On Dec. 2, like every evening before Advent ... into the city where Jesus Christ was born. The custos and the ...

She calls special attention to Advent and the prayerful, joyful preparation during this liturgical period before the birth of Jesus Christ on Christmas ... all of these are photos that I stop ...

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.

Children welcome the custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, upon his entrance into Bethlehem on Nov. 30, 2024, for the beginning of Advent ... glad tidings of Christ’s birth in ...

Thus, the Advent season is a four-week period celebrating the coming of Christ. It is a monthlong commemoration of Christmas past, present and future: past, in the birth of Jesus some 2,000 years ...