Advent wreaths and candles are more than just pretty Christmas ... Advent gradually developed into a season that lasted four weeks leading up to Christmas. The tradition as we know it today ...

Advent, a four-week season leading up to Christmas on Dec ... The most common tradition typically uses four candles. Each candle is lit on one of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas.

Place the candles in the holder securely ... This all there is to the assembly. Advent is a season penance, but we live in a celebratory culture where the Christmas festivities begin almost ...

What season is it? Our lives are governed by seasons: the four seasons of weather, hunting season, baseball season, and so on. I recently saw a commercial for a cell phone company, playing off ...

The pink candle will be lit on the third Sunday of Advent, known as Gaudete Sunday ... birth of Christ and the change in the colour of the season.

By Tim Power This Sunday many people will begin to observe the season of Advent. It is composed of the four weeks leading up to Christmas and is meant to be “an alluring, wild, pregnant season.” ...

Some churches have an advent wreath with five candles, one for each of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas Day and one for Christmas Day itself. There are different readings on each of the ...

We're not talking those drugstore specials that seem to show up every holiday season, chock-full of questionably waxy chocolate. These advent calendars are experiences in and of themselves ...

Visit each week during the season of Advent as we light a new candle and share a new gift. The Marian Library wishes you hope, peace, joy and love throughout the season and the new year to come. Two ...