The early believers lived this out in practical ways. Acts 2:46–47 describes people who ate together, cared for one another, ...

Father Joshua J. Whitfield provides a reflection on the readings and gospel for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Dec. 14, 2025.

What is the spirit of this Advent season? Where should our focus be? What can distract us from the melee of pre-Christmas merriment, or help us to get beneath the marketing, the mulling, the muzak, ...

VATICAN CITY (CNA)—Although he is the only person in the world to have the job of preaching to the Pope, Father Raniero Cantalamessa sees his work as simply delivering the message of the Gospel. “It ...

Year passes year, silently; Christ’s coming is ever nearer than it was. O that as he comes nearer earth, we may approach nearer heaven. Christ nearer earth, you and me nearer heaven. So, what a time ...

How funny should I make a sermon? My instinct, after making my living as a comedy writer, is to bring out my best material.

ATLANTA, GA, Dec. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Day1, the national weekly ecumenical radio, podcast, and streaming program produced by the Alliance for Christian Media, broadcasting inspiring sermons ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - It's a Lenten tradition more than a century old. Cathedral Church of the Advent resumes its annual weekday preaching and Lenten lunches on Ash Wednesday, March 5. So you can hear ...

I have always loved Advent. Even as a child, I was filled with the aching wonder of the season when my dad would lead us in singing O Come, O Come Emmanuel to the glow of the Advent wreath in the dark ...