Regarding Vell Rives’s Dec. 6 letter, “Keep Advent purple, please”: While purple (or violet) is the color of penance and sacrifice first used during Lent and subsequently during Advent in ...

Young Voices: We are led to believe in extremes, that we are either Red or Blue. But this Advent season, we should remind ourselves that we are all shades of Purple.

Keep Advent purple, not blue. December 5, 2016. A Christmas tree stands at the Grote Markt in Brussels on Nov. 27. (Emmanuel Dunand/Agence France-Presse Getty Images) ...

Purple is a color traditionally associated with both Lent and Advent. During Advent, clergy and bishops wear purple–but they may not be handing out purple-wrapped chocolate bars with Advent ...

The candles for the first, second and fourth weeks of Advent are purple, but the candle for the third week is rose. It symbolizes joy — the joy we feel knowing that the birth of Christ is very near.

For Catholics, the Advent season — the beginning of the liturgical year — starts the first weekend of December and lasts until Christmas. The season of Advent is traditionally seen as what ...

Many Christians attending church the next four Sundays will see the celebrant wearing purple. It is the liturgical colour for Advent, the four weeks leading to Chri… ...

One last Advent prayer for peace Sam Sawyer, S.J. December 23, 2023 People celebrate the arrival of the Peace Light of Bethlehem outside St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, during a ceremony ...