Search Results
Several local groups participated in Wreaths Across America Dec, 16, including members of American Heritage Girls Troop VA 633 from Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville.
The Knights of Columbus George Brent Council hall at All Saints Church in Manassas transformed into Santa’s workshop Dec. 15, as dozens of volunteers packed up presents for more than 800 children in need.
This charming fact-based historical drama tells the origin story of Victorian author Charles Dickens’ beloved 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol.
A young Mexican lad's (voice of Anthony Gonzalez) quest to follow in the footsteps of his hometown's most famous son (voice of Benjamin Bratt) by becoming a world-renowned musician takes a supernatural turn on the Day of the Dead when he is mysteriously transported to the afterlife as depicted in the folklore associated with the pre-Columbian aspects of that celebration.
Writer-director Greta Gerwig's sensitive autobiographical account of growing up in Sacramento, Calif., while testing her boundaries with both her family and her parochial school is pleasing in some respects but teeth-grating in a couple of others.
Generally intriguing character study, set in Los Angeles, in which an eccentric civil rights lawyer (Denzel Washington) finds his ideals put to the test when the critical illness of his senior partner leads to the dissolution of their firm, and he is offered a much-needed job by a successful acquaintance (Colin Farrell) he considers a sellout.
The eccentricities of a notorious self-funding filmmaker (James Franco, who also directed) and the story of the friendship (with Dave Franco) that led to the making of his famously bad 2003 movie "The Room" provide steady laughs but will also touch viewers' hearts as the relationship at the center of this fact-based comedy endures through numerous strains.
If good things come to those who wait, then great things are in store for Deacon Michael Baggot, a seminarian with the Legionaries of Christ. After 10 years in formation and studies that took him from Germany to Mexico to Rome, he is just days from his goal.
Rejoicing on Gaudete Sunday
The third Sunday of Advent is traditionally called "Gaudete Sunday" or the "Sunday to rejoice.” It goes back to a time when Advent was more deeply penitential than it is today. Gaudete Sunday signaled the halfway mark signifying that Advent was almost over. People were invited to rejoice that Christmas was near.