...which is also called Mothering Sunday and Refreshment Sunday. Pink or rose represents joy or rejoicing and reveals a shift in the season of Advent away from repentance and toward...
Colors of the Advent Candles


...which is also called Mothering Sunday and Refreshment Sunday. Pink or rose represents joy or rejoicing and reveals a shift in the season of Advent away from repentance and toward...

...of Catholicism, edited by Richard P. McBrien, Gregory the Great, who died in 604, was the real architect of the Roman Advent. Gregory fixed the season at four weeks and...