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 ...

(RNS) — 'It also feels like a particularly good year for Advent. It feels like, this has been a whole Advent year, a whole Advent two years,' said The Porter’s Gate founder. (RNS) — The newest album ...

The Arcadia Chorale will present ‘The Coming of the King: Sacred Songs for Hanukkah, Advent, and Christmas’ on Dec. 6 in Wilkes-Barre and on Dec. 7 in Scranton. The group’s annual Messiah Sing-Along ...

Let's face it, the Christmas season comes at us hard and fast — and early! And once it does, it's full-on immersion: food, songs, shopping, decorations, parties, school concerts and presents — "not ...

We no more finish our Thanksgiving leftovers than it is time to begin another season — the season of Advent. In a secular sense, the word "advent" means "the arrival of something important or awaited.

Staff photo / Bob Coupland St. James Episcopal Church members Sharyn Fees of Poland, Paula Ulicny of Poland, David Belvedere of Poland and David Ulicny of Youngstown sing Advent songs at the final ...