How to prepare well for Christmas
As the Christmas song goes: “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” While Easter is the most important time...
Reflections
The season of good will?
For some people, the jingling of bells that announces the Christmas season does not signal a time to be jolly....
An exchange of gifts
GUEST EDITORIAL BY SR JUDY COYLE IHM It is common during the Christmas season to exchange gifts, husband and wife,...
The reaper’s merciless scythe
If happiness matters, that particular Christmas was significant. We had hired a car to travel as far as we could...
This is Christmas
Guest editorial by Bishop Stephen Brislin Awake, mankind, says St Augustine. For your sake God has become man. Awake, you...
Christmas memo
CHRIS MOERDYK takes aim at the wrong kind of Christmas spirit. Every year at Christmas, I must admit to getting...
The meaning of Christmas
A reflection by Professor Peter Hunter Christmas means different things to different people. For the young children of families who...
