This period, known as Emmanuel or "God with us," shifts the focus from anticipation to presence. Five candles burn on the ...

From Trentino to Sicily, Italy’s falò dell’Avvento mark the start of Christmas with communal bonfires, rural symbolism, and shared winter rituals ...

The Reed of God, a meditation on the humanity of Mary by Caryll Houselander (1901-1954), the English Catholic spiritual ...

Furthermore, the calendar is a kind of a big, garish present that says "this is for all of you!" Yet it also fits pretty ...

“This situation is not that far from the Holocaust,” one of the hostages says in tape recovered by the IDF. Two months after they were taken hostage, and eight months before they would be murdered, ...