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

God has given birth to a creation capable of participating in divine life. Jesus gave a replicable witness to that truth.

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Second Sunday of Advent, Dec. 7, 2025.

The time is ripe; this is the moment to make straight the paths, to remind ourselves that Christ is alive and the Spirit is ...

In her Scriptures and prayers, however, the church does not look toward Bethlehem until Dec. 17. And each year, on the second ...

(RNS) — The Scripture readings during Advent are a mix of comfort and challenge. On the one hand, the readings from Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 40-56) offer us comfort. The author was speaking to Jewish ...

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

It would be easy to conclude that Advent calendars—usually with 25 compartments that reveal a treat, image or scripture, used ...

SAN FRANCISCO — “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ,” said St. Jerome. If that’s true, then lots of Catholics are getting to know Christ very well indeed. In the past year, nearly ...

Christmas is a delightful disruption in the normal days of our lives. In the 2nd Chapter of Luke we see the shepherd just ...

It was for them a kind of Advent. The disciples of John the Baptist were eager to see the Messiah. The story Matthew tells is ...