An exchange of gifts
GUEST EDITORIAL BY SR JUDY COYLE IHM It is common during the Christmas season to exchange gifts, husband and wife, parent and child, friend and friend. The...
Christmas
Christmas memo
CHRIS MOERDYK takes aim at the wrong kind of Christmas spirit. Every year at Christmas, I must admit to getting a little piqued at the commercialisation of...
Getting ready for Christmas
The singer Andy Williams would have you believe that it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Yeah, right. Try “stressful”, Andrew. December is a rush, and...
The meaning of Christmas
A reflection by Professor Peter Hunter Christmas means different things to different people. For the young children of families who can afford it, it is primarily a...
Yehonatan and the baby
A short story by Louis Mallett He was street-child of his day, and Yehonatan’s mother had him up at first light. There would be good pickings in...
The bell of St Raphael
A short story by Fr Ralph de Hahn Port Raphael, on the Cape’s West Coast, was just a small insignificant fishing village, no more than 150 inhabitants,...
Time and eternity meet on crossroads
Wherever Christian hearts beat, the holy night of Christmas draws millions together, writes Mgr JAN JAWORSKI. During the silent and holy night, Jesus Christ the infant God/man...
God’s special gift to us
By Archbishop Denis Hurley OMI About 15 billion years ago a cosmic blast occurred that we have come to call the Big Bang. Our universe was on...
Scrooge still haunts us
By Owen Williams The visible aspects of the English-speaking Christmas owe much to Charles Dickens (1812-1870), particularly of course to his great novel A Christmas Carol, which...
