“Prayer is a big part of Advent. It’s a way to grow closer to God, especially with intentionality during this season,” Frei ...

As the season of Advent draws to a close, four local clergy have offered their perspectives of the importance of Advent as it ...

Sisters all over the world share how Advent offers hope and needed silence after a year rife with uncertainty that follows ...

People gathered Tuesday night at Murray Baptist Church for a community candlelight Christmas Eve Service to enjoy music, a ...

Lighting Christmas candles is an age-old tradition that has great religious significance all across the globe.

While Jews light their Menorahs during the eight days of Hanukkah, Christians usually light their Advent candles over four weeks, one per week, during the time leading up to Christmas as “part of the ...

A way to symbolize this time is to set out an advent wreath and candles. The candles are typically placed on the wreath and each one has its own meaning that is meant to focus on the different ...

Early Christians observed Advent with prayer and meditation, focusing on the themes of hope, peace, joy, and love — the four candles of the Advent wreath that many congregations light each week ...

Wreaths are more than a seasonal door decoration. From the shape to the materials, each part of your Christmas wreath has meaningful symbolism.

The practice of increasing the light each week in Advent is a way for us to not only recreate what happened before in ...

As we light the candles of Advent—hope, peace, joy, and love—may we allow their flickering flames to illuminate the path to peace. May we embrace the waiting, the reflecting, and the hoping.