At New Life Assembly of God, we commemorate the Last Supper on the First Sunday of the month. The first Sunday of this month was also the first Sunday of the Christmas Advent season and we integrated ...

I made my first Communion when I was 8. I had waited long for it, was dressed up in a dress, veil and shoes, all of them white. I was ready for the big moment. Then, Msgr. Higgins gave the homily ...

The First Sunday of Advent is ecclesiastical New Year’s Day. ... Many Catholics, over time, allow the fire they had toward Jesus in Holy Communion to attenuate or be extinguished.

It won’t matter, if we arrive with Advent hearts full of patience, hope, joy and communion. Tucson faith leaders, we would like to include your original sermon or scriptures of encouragement.

The first Advent wreath was made in Germany in 1839. It wasn't like the ones we see today, though. ... The color symbolizes communion and is used to promote religious unity.

Then move clockwise and light a second purple candle for the second Sunday of Advent, Dec. 8. On the third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 15, also known as Gaudete Sunday, the pink candle is lit.

Second Sunday of Advent, December 5, 2021 (A Service of Holy Communion) You are invited to rise, in body or spirit, for those parts of the service marked with an asterisk (*) Invitatory: Three ...

IF WE take the first two readings for Advent 2 at face value, the Second Coming will not be welcoming or comforting, but terrifying. ... or the material of communion — bread and wine — as immaterial ...

On Saturday evening in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI marked the first day of this year’s Advent season with a challenge, and a call to Christians to accept the communion offered by ...

Reception of holy Communion on the tongue has been a tradition of the Church for more than 15 centuries. It began, largely, as an effort to affirm that the Eucharist was not a symbol or a ritual ...

Advent strains at the leash; it is eager for God’s future. Advent is a time to be fully alive. ‘Of course’ it is’ I say, but then I add a thoroughly Anglican ‘perhaps’ and indeed a cautious ‘probably’ ...

2nd Sunday of Advent. by Cally Hammond. 28 November 2022. 4 December: Isaiah 11.1-10; Psalm 72.1-7,18-19 ... I wonder whether that uncompromising message was part of what drew the Pharisees in the ...