Advent is not Lent, but is still a time of vigilance and sobriety. How to fast in Advent

Dec 8

The Immaculate Conception
Conversion is the painful detachment from old ways. It involves a period of transition and transformation. That is what Advent should be all about, not talk about toys and presents, nor listening to Christmas carols long before Christmas has come, nor hanging up snowmen, reindeers and colourful lights! Someone is coming who is greater than John, someone who is the Lord of the universe and Saviour of the world!

THIS SUNDAY'S HOMILY FROM VATICAN RADIO - English text

Dec 5 - Second Sunday of Advent

Today, we are called to allow the Lord to enter our lives. But when John the Baptist speaks of making straight the way of the Lord, is he talking about the road the Lord comes upon, or the road that we must follow? The valleys and mountains that must be levelled are our own preoccupations with our faults and our proud fixations with our own way of doings things. We must become the simple level ground upon which the Lord will plant his seed.

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History and traditions of the Advent Season

The proofs that Juan Diego really did exist, despite the scepticism of some historians

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Jacinta, seer of Garbandal, gives new interview

St Andrew - big hearted fisherman becomes daring Apostle of the Lord

Text of a lovely children's liturgy for the Feast of the Immaculate conception

Considering the main Protestant objection to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

St Juan Diego and the miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Vision in the trenches: St Therese of Lisieux appears to soldiers on the Western Front