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Unwrap The Divine Christmas Present
Page 5 from 26th December 2008C hristmas Eve 1886: or, more exactly, the early hours of Christmas morning. A 13-year-old girl and her family arrive home after Midnight Mass in a......
And With Your Spirit
Page 16 from 4th March 2011By Fr John Zuhlsdorf T he Catholic Herald has offered me a weekly series to focus on the new, corrected English translation of Holy Mass in the......
Memories, Music And Midnight Mass
Page 4 from 25th December 1992Ronald Rolheiser looks forward to a traditional Canadian family Christmas in his home town M ANY of my fondest memories have to do with being a......
A House Full Of Echoes From Our (pagan) Past
Page 7 from 14th December 1979WHEN I was young, I knew a man who prided himself on being the Complete Rationalist. As far as I was concerned, that meant that if he found that I......
Getting Back To The Basics Of Preparing For Christmas
Page 6 from 7th December 2001Leonie Caldecott suggests practical ways for the whole family to make Advent a time of spiritual preparation H ere we go into a new liturgical......
Your Christmas And Mine
Page 10 from 3rd December 1954By Celia Kent C HRISTMAS is like a brilliant ‘-"meteor in the night of the year. It tears through the darkness, streaming with pennants of light,......
Faith In Father Christmas Restored
Page 6 from 23rd December 1977Kevin McNamara MY FAITH in Father Christmas has been restored. Not that I had ever even secretly wavered in my belief — not even during those......
It's Notjust Commercialism That Takes Christ Out Of...
Page 6 from 6th December 2002The secularisation of Christmas is not simply something that has happened through a general loss of religious belief, argues Joanna Bogle there......
Our Light May Falter But Never Fail
Page 12 from 17th December 2010Nick Thomas A t our local church, on the first Sunday of Advent, my threeyear-old daughter, along with all the other tots from our congregation,......
Lastword
Page 16 from 3rd December 2004Hope in Advent Ronald Rolheiser H enri Nouwen was once asked: “Are you an optimist?” His reply: “No, not naturally, but that isn’t important. I......