I’m not sure who it was that said “it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness”, but I can tell you I have ...

Kick off February 2025 with hope and faith! Take a few moments to say this prayer, asking for all your plans to succeed and ...

Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen is a hands-on maker intent on creating collective mystical experiences. “My work often plays with ...

By T.J. Ray Columnist To begin with, it is doubtful that the Anti-Christ is abroad.  You know—the one medievals expected as a ...

It is no coincidence that this feast is traditionally celebrated with the blessing and lighting of candles ... Christ is the true light who has come to dispel the darkness of the world.

In a historic joint pilgrimage to Rome for the 2025 Jubilee, Nordic Catholics were reminded of their mission to bring ...

Candlemas, for all its focus on babies, and candles ... hope—a light for revelation, a salvation that can be seen, the Son of the Most High, Glory to God in the highest. Simeon’s latter words to Mary ...

I have taken the Saviour, the hope of the devout ... For centuries, Christian communities took candles that they would use in the coming months to their church to be blessed as symbols of Jesus, light ...

The beloved blessing of the throats on the feast of St. Blaise has outlasted empires, plagues and revolutions — proving that ...