Croatia. About 86% of the people in this Balkan Peninsula country are Roman Catholic, and Advent is a big part of the religious life here. For some Croatians, preparations for Christmas actually ...

3. Have a Nativity scene. If you decorate outside, include an outdoor creche to bless passers-by as well as your own family. 4. Sing and play Advent songs before Christmas.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church conducted an outdoor wreath and nativity blessing, right next to the church building. The event was a part of continued Christmas events across the city. Therese ...

So, we embraced the Advent traditions of the Advent wreath and Jesse Tree. My mother always put up an outdoor Advent wreath complete with pink and purple bows, which got switched to red on ...

Within the wreath’s branches, four candles representing the four weeks of Advent are inserted, with one lit on each of the four Sundays before Christmas. Three candles are purple and one is rose ...

Advent wreaths come in a wide variety of styles and designs, but the traditional wreath features 24 candles. Diakonie presented one of these to the ... Advent gift - Why there are 24 lights on the ...

A group of 20 artists have created a large-scale outdoor Advent calendar in an attempt to "cheer up a little corner" of a town park. The calendar in Northampton's Racecourse consists of 24 boxes ...