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"O Lord, How Shall I Meet You" is a perfect Lutheran hymn for the weeks before Christmas, but shoppers will never hear it between Muzak versions of "Jingle Bells" and ...

Advent is a season filled with rich Catholic traditions, but a slightly lesser-known one is growing in popularity among younger Catholics. The ancient liturgy of the Rorate Caeli Advent Mass honors ...

One goal is to note the obvious tension between the sobering messages heard during the quiet weeks of Advent and the waves of joyful songs, sacred and secular, that now start before Thanksgiving and ...

Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié Concordia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. It would be easy to conclude ...

Advent for some Christian denominations is a penitential season of waiting and longing in the four weeks before Christmas. The consumer-driven holiday season often overlooks the Advent themes of ...

It would be easy to conclude that Advent calendars—usually with 25 compartments that reveal a treat, image or scripture, used to count down the days from Dec. 1 to Christmas Eve—represent just another ...

The King has joined senior Christian clerics from the UK and Middle East for an Advent service celebrating “light, hope and, above all, the peace of this season”. Charles attended the service at ...

“O Lord, How Shall I Meet You” is a perfect Lutheran hymn for the weeks before Christmas, but shoppers will never hear it between Muzak versions of “Jingle ...

One goal is to note the obvious tension between the sobering messages heard during the quiet weeks of Advent and the waves of joyful songs, sacred and secular, that now start before Thanksgiving and ...

For many, the idea of an "Advent music playlist" is bizarre. "There is real theological meaning in the longing and expectation of Advent -- the 'not yet' of the hoped-for gift -- that hymns like 'Come ...