Still, noted Lomnitzer during this season of Advent in 2023, there was more to come. "As the drama of God’s revelation intensifies, John the Baptist now appears, unlike any of the other prophets ...

Planning: 2nd Sunday of Advent By: Lawrence Mick Today’s readings seem to continue last week’s themes. John the Baptist calls for repentance and echoes Isaiah’s call to prepare the way of ...

People reevaluate their lives. Might that be the call our Scriptures offer us during this Advent season? Are we desirous and capable of a 21st-century metanoia? The thing about genuine conversion ...

Regardless of which Evangelist is the particular focus in the three-year Sunday cycle of readings, the Gospels of the Second and Third Sundays of Advent always focus on the person and work of St ...

(photo: Daniel Ibanez/CNA / EWTN) This year, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, which is a holy day of obligation, falls on the Second Sunday of Advent. So, are Catholics obligated to go ...

The readings from the Second Sunday of Advent present us with two of the major Advent characters: the prophet Isaiah, the source of several messianic prophecies, and John the Baptist, the one God ...