Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection for the readings and Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Advent, Dec. 21, 2025.

The great Cistercian monk St Bernard of Clairvaux spoke of Advent in three distinct senses, and Christian writers and sermons ...

Advent seemed to bring the best out of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. A sermon that he delivered in 1933 is particularly pertinent to ...

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 ...

Sam Sawyer, S.J., editor-in-chief of America Media, returns to “Preach” to discuss his Advent homily series, designed to be more cohesive than the usual week-to-week, stand-alone Sunday homilies that ...

The Sunday worship service starts at 10 a.m. The Rev. Amy Beth Durward de Macias will present the sermon. Also, there will be Christmas Eve candlelight services at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday. Both ...

As is done each year, the Pope and the members of the Roman Curia began attending a series of Advent sermons in preparation for Christmas. This year’s sermons are being delivered by the papal preacher ...

Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May St. in Aurora, is celebrating the Advent season by fighting hunger. The third of four weekly sermons, food/toiletry collections and sandwich-making sessions ...

For many Christians this past Sunday marked the beginning of Advent: A season of anticipation as we prepare for the birth of Jesus. Churches who read the selected scriptures from the lectionary read ...

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 ...

Today we start the new Church Year with the beginning of a new season of Advent. Regular worshippers here will have noticed that there is no Altar at the Crossing, immediately in front of the ...