Advent is a time of waiting and preparing for the birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. For Christmas. Taken from the Latin adventus, (coming, arrival, invasion), Advent proclaims the coming of Christ in two ways: it celebrates His long-awaited arrival as Messiah over...
Joy For Christians, this is the the season of Advent. A time of joy and contemplation. A time of remembering Christ’s first coming and of looking forward to His return. Of what was, and what is to be. On the first and second Sunday of Advent we lit the candles...
Today marks the beginning of Advent. Advent is the season of waiting and of preparing for the birth of Christ. The first Advent was the birth in a stable in Bethlehem, the Incarnation that we celebrate as Christmas. As Israel longed for their Messiah to come, so...
Advent is a season of waiting. But our whole life is an Advent season. A season of waiting for the second Advent when there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth.