The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:24:13 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Rekindling Advent in parishes /faith/guest-faith-columns/item/34961-rekindling-advent-in-parishes /faith/guest-faith-columns/item/34961-rekindling-advent-in-parishes

Advent Season is here again. On Sunday Nov. 27, the Church begins a new liturgical year — Year A, with the celebration of the First Sunday of the new liturgical Season of Advent. 

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For the first holiday outing in our new city, we headed out for the tree lighting in the town square. (It felt very Stars Hallow, for the Gilmore Girls fans, with lots of twinkly lights and a mayorƵapp words and Santa arriving by fire truck with all the usual characters.) After a line for sleigh rides, a queue for hot chocolate and another turn to take to see Santa, my little girl exclaimed loudly that “Mostly tonight, we were waiting in line!”

]]> lperrault@catholicregister.org (Leah Perrault) Register Columnists Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:30:00 -0500 Advent on the home front /item/33767-advent-on-the-home-front /item/33767-advent-on-the-home-front

Are we ready for Christ? After almost two years of living through this pandemic, we might feel like we are ready for anything and everything or maybe you are feeling like Charlie Brown just before Lucy pulls the football away.

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With the second wave of COVID-19 dismantling the equilibrium between joy and gloominess, a night of music, prayer and testimony was organized to help Calgary youth take part in the Advent experience.

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A great story will certainly emerge from this Advent; a year like no other. An Advent to remember for sure and the stories we tell about this time will be noteworthy.

]]> special@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Special) Features Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:00:00 -0500 Lighting candles on our path to Christmas /faith/guest-faith-columns/item/32423-lighting-candles-on-our-path-to-christmas /faith/guest-faith-columns/item/32423-lighting-candles-on-our-path-to-christmas

How are you preparing for Christmas?

]]> Guest Faith Columns Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:14:18 -0500 Advent is time to identify sin, help the poor, see beauty, Pope says /faith/item/26467-advent-is-time-to-identify-sin-help-poor-see-beauty-pope-says /faith/item/26467-advent-is-time-to-identify-sin-help-poor-see-beauty-pope-says VATICAN – Advent is a time to be watchful and alert to the ways one strays from God's path, but also to signs of his presence in other people and in the beauty of the world, Pope Francis said.]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) Faith Mon, 04 Dec 2017 11:38:18 -0500 Advent: Highway of holiness passes through the desert /faith/guest-faith-columns/item/23797-advent-highway-of-holiness-passes-through-the-desert /faith/guest-faith-columns/item/23797-advent-highway-of-holiness-passes-through-the-desert

In his very moving homily for the Inauguration of his Petrine Ministry as Bishop of Rome on April 24, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI spoke these words:

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The Advent season in its liturgical observance is devoted to the coming of God at the end of history when Jesus shall reign as king.

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