Perhaps it’s the compressed calendar, or the external decor that grabs our attention with “Celebrate the season!” Or, maybe it’s the emphasis on reunions — bringing loved ones dear to us near to us for joy-filled sharing.
Christmas: Take heart! God is with us!
A closer look at the Nativity story in Luke’s Gospel
Christmas is a major feast day, yet it is based upon small passages in two Gospels. These are the Nativity accounts in the first two chapters of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.
Catholic experts in nutrition and ethics offer holiday temperance ideas
Parties, cookie exchanges, family get-togethers and that bowl of Christmas candy on your co-worker’s desk can all weigh heavily on the scale at this time of year.
Emmanuel: The name sums up the Christmas message
the Christmas message prompts Jesus’ followers to learn to recognize his presence in others.
The Christmas story according to St. Luke
Msgr. Philip Whitmore, rector of the Venerable English College in Rome, reads the Christmas story from St. Luke’s Gospel.
A creche ritual
The creche, and the real-life re-enactments of the Nativity story, still popular in Catholic schools, have helped imaginations enter the Christmas story for centuries.
Pope: God’s Christmas wish isn’t buying-frenzy, feast, but gift of self
“If Christmas ends up as just a beautiful traditional holiday,” where everything revolves around “us and not him, it will be a lost opportunity,” the pope said Dec. 19 during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI audience hall.
Christmas Eve marks 200th anniversary of beloved carol ‘Silent Night’
Exactly 200 years ago this Christmas Eve — Dec. 24, 1818 — in a little church in what is now Austria, the world heard for the first time a poem set to music that eventually would be hailed as one of the most popular and beloved Christmas carols of all time.