We begin the season of Advent with readings that direct our gaze to the ultimate and the immediate realities of our lives. The first Sunday of Advent always looks to history’s end. For Christians that ...

I have fond childhood memories of this season of Advent, the four weeks preceding Christmas. During worship we would light one of the candles for each Sunday: One, two, three, four, CHRISTMAS! Our ...

"John the Baptist appeared in the desert, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins" (Mark 1:4). This verse is from the Gospel of Mark, one of the three synoptic Gospels. The ...

Today is the Second Sunday of Advent. What’s the line that sticks with you? Is it “Prepare ye the way of the Lord!” or “Every valley shall be exalted”? That might be the test of whether you are more a ...

Regardless of which Evangelist is the particular focus in the three-year Sunday cycle of readings, the Gospels of the Second and Third Sundays of Advent always focus on the person and work of St. John ...