In the Fourth Week of Advent, the pressure is on to get everything done before Christmas. Buy this, mail that, eat this, order that online. The crunch of time threatens to drown Advent in errands that ...

As Advent moves toward Christmas, the Lectionary interweaves some of the great prophetic and narrative scriptures to prepare us for who Jesus is. Isaiah’s promise that out of destruction will come ...

Sunday, Dec. 8, is the Second Sunday of Advent. Mass reading: Baruch 5:1-9; Psalm 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6; Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11; Luke 3:1-6. In this Sunday’s Gospel, the curtain rises on the opening ...

How is your Advent going? Last week I talked about doing less for Advent so that you could pray more and enjoy the readings more, and enter more deeply into the liturgical season. Now I know for some ...