Last week, the First Congregational Church (FCC) of Manchester held their summer vacation bible camp week on site – an ...

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Explore a collection of beautiful Christmas wishes for 2024 to share love, joy, and hope with friends and family. Spread festive cheer and warmth this holiday season with heartfelt messages.

For the first time in nearly 20 years, Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah coincide on December 25, 2024. This unique overlap, known as Chrismukkah, celebrates shared values of light, love ...

Christmas greetings are more than just formalities; they convey heartfelt wishes and prayers for loved ones.

“Part of why we observe Advent,” writes Episcopal priest Tish Harrison Warren, “is to make Christmas weird again, to allow the shock of the incarnation to take us aback once more.” Advent ...

Keeping this in mind, the Pope in one Christmas message had reiterated: “O Jesus, born for our sake, teach us to walk beside you on the paths of peace. Yes, we need to walk beside Jesus and sincerely ...

Advent, a season rich in symbolism and tradition, offers a unique opportunity for spiritual renewal as believers await Christ’s birth and his second coming. It is about hope, peace, joy and love, and ...

This year, Advent also leads up to the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee, themed “Pilgrims of Hope,” which will begin on Christmas Eve. For the Missionaries of Charity and their collaborators ...

One candle for each of these five themes. However, these five themes of Advent — hope, peace, joy, love and Jesus — shouldn’t just be something we reflect on.

The second week of Advent While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. – Francis of Assisi ...

One of the four candles is lit each week with a scriptural reading to illuminate the themes of hope, peace, joy and love.