As Christmas grows closer and closer, those who celebrate are busy with last minute preparations, including gift wrapping, holiday baking and celebration planning. However, for Christians, the weeks ...

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

The fourth Sunday of Advent is symbolized by lighting the final candle on the wreath, representing love. This Advent season ...

Three candles burn now: hope, peace, and joy. Next week, we turn toward love, the culmination of everything Advent builds.

We have reached the third Sunday in Advent, known as “Gaudete Sunday.” In the Western church, “gaudete,” the Latin word for “rejoice,” was the first word of the appointed “introit,” or psalm of the ...

Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday, and the dates change annually because it follows the Hebrew lunar calendar. The holiday commemorates the miraculous victory of the Maccabees and a single day's ...

Christmas lights are shining all over the world. Whether in the Southern Hemisphere's summer, the northern winter or the eternal spring of equatorial places, we set up luminarias, burn candles and put ...

Each of the windows has been dressed in a different festive way, including these paper sculptures A village on the Cornwall and Devon border has been lit up, one day at a time, for Christmas. Calstock ...

Judaism is a Mediterranean religion — thus too is Christianity — but we forget that Mediterranean means northern hemisphere. Hanukkah’s candles are lit in the darkest days of the year, just as ...

As your servant St. Francis prayed on a long-ago day, “Make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow ...

BAXTER — On Wednesday, Dec. 17, and Sunday, Dec. 21, singers from Lord of Life Lutheran Church will be joined by others from the community to put on “The Winter Rose,” a Joseph M. Martin Cantata. In ...