Making New Year’s Resolutions? Then Remember Christmas…
Does making New Year’s resolutions work for you? PETE SHEEHAN has some ideas that may help you — especially if we keep the meaning of Christmas at...
Does making New Year’s resolutions work for you? PETE SHEEHAN has some ideas that may help you — especially if we keep the meaning of Christmas at...
Christmas / Church / Feast Days / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published December 27, 2020 · Last modified December 28, 2020
Günther Simmermacher looks at the life & times of the Holy Family The Bible is not generous with biographical detail about the Holy Family. We encounter Joseph,...
By Cindy Wooden – On a Christmas like no other, Pope Francis prayed for people who could not be with their families because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but...
By the late Owen Williams St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), preaching his sixth sermon for Christmas Eve, took as his text Jesus Christ, the Son of God,...
Christmas / Fr John Allen Green / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published December 25, 2020 · Last modified December 20, 2020
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that...
A child in Galway, Ireland, is nuzzled by a donkey wearing a Santa hat, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Clodagh Kilcoyne, Reuters) More Stories: God’s Great Gift...
A 14th-century altarpiece from Siena, Italy, tells the story of the Nativity in perfect visual terms, as Jem Sullivan explains. ‘Jesus was born in a humble stable,...
The commercialism of Christmas can easily tempt us to become spiritually sidetracked. A barrage of commercials tries to sell the illusion that buying more things will bring...
By Junno Arocho Esteves – While Christmas has become a universal holiday, even for many nonbelievers, its celebration always should focus on the reality that God sent his...
This is not the Christmas we envisioned for ourselves or our children. There’s no getting away from that, no matter how hard we try. There’s an old...
Elisabeth Holod of Assumption Parish in St. Paul has long been intrigued by light-sound shows and art history, and she loves the Cathedral of St. Paul, which...
Biography of Hymns / Christmas / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published December 24, 2020 · Last modified December 13, 2020
Translated into 140 languages, it may be the most famous Christmas hymn in the world. Günther Simmermacher looks at the history of ‘Silent Night’.
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