cooking meals together, baking cookies, batch after batch. Meals at Thanksgiving and, yes, especially come Christmastime. Our boys out on the lawn beneath the maples playing catch. Oh, those years ...

Not many years before that, namely in 567, the second Council ... unless December 25 be a Sunday. We may therefore consider the present discipline of the observance of Advent as having lasted ...

The three purple candles will be lit on the first, second and fourth Sunday of Advent. The pink candle will be lit on the third Sunday of Advent, known as Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete means ‘to ...

The first Sunday of Advent is always four Sundays before Christmas ... It is also a time of preparation when Christians think about the second coming of Christ and what they need to do to be ...

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