Prepare Your Heart for Advent: Why (and How) to Return to Sunday Mass and Confession 2021

Part I of our annual Advent guides

Advent calls us to prepare our hearts for the coming of the Christ Child. (photo: Shutterstock / Shutterstock)

The Editors Features November 21, 2021

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