"The Rosary in a Year" chart-topping podcast is a step-by-step journey to a deeper relationship with the Lord, its host told ...

In early Advent, the patriarchs and leaders of Jerusalem’s Churches urged their communities to “fully celebrate the coming and birth of Christ by offering public signs of Christian hope.” ...

1 Corinthians 12: 1-11 Different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit Creation Connection: God creates with intentionality. Just as every part of Earth’s ecosystem has an important role in the ...

Christmas is a celebration of the simplicity and closeness of our God. He is born in a manger, in unsavory living conditions. This child, though destitute, announces the coming of the Most High ...

Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 or Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 Psalm 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or Psalm 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 Acts 10:34-38 or Titus ...

Christmas is not just a day but a whole liturgical season, lasting until the Feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6. Curiously, Jan. 6 is the day that will find me lying on an operating room table under ...

Jeremy Clarkson has released an anti-Dry January advent-style calendar. The Clarkson’s Farm star’s latest offering provides a drink per day throughout the first month of 2025 for those not ...

We need to enter every Advent asking, “Where’s the baby?” (1001 Illustrations That Connect, contributed by Greg Asimakoupoulos, Mercer Island, Washington) The prophet Isaiah says, “He shall judge ...

How fitting at New Year’s, as we examine our past, present and future, that we look to Jesus, the only one who holds the future in his hands. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and ...

Day 25 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the most distant known galaxy. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found a record-breaking distant galaxy observed just 290 ...

Christians have recently come through Advent (the season of the church year ... God is one of us. That is what Isaiah 7:14 calls the event. The name of the son is Immanuel — translated as ...

Just as with the meaning of each Advent candle, there are four things ... Many of the prophecies, like those in Isaiah, were written centuries before the birth of Jesus. Cumulatively, they predict ...