Liturgy and music nerds can start making plans for next year – it is never too early.
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Happy Christmas, Happy Epiphany
The three men then walked back out into the night. But the darkness was different. Something had happened in the stable. Their pain was still there, but now they were noticing the stars. There had been a kind of epiphany. Their way back was different.
Read moreNon Solum: Christmas Flower Donations
Is there is a sensitive way to limit or refuse donations?
Read moreAdvent & Christmas in the Parish
With a little thought and planning, you can help your parish become immersed in the beauty and richness of Advent and Christmas!
Read moreHow the Grinch mistranslated Christmas
The translation of the prayers for Midnight Mass is clumsy, and it misses the spirit of the Mass itself.
Read moreThe Christmas Carol: A Reflection
by Nicholas Denysenko
Has a particular Christmas carol touched you this Christmas?
A profoundly blue Christmas
Little did I know when I posted something about “blue Christmas”-liturgies here recently that people not far from where I live would be forced to
Read moreChrist and Christmas Cards
You would think that in our contemporary overkill pre-Christmas, anything-you-want consumer culture I would have no difficulties finding a Christmas card. Think again.
Read moreImmaculate Guadalupe and Other Liturgical Oddities
Universities often observe Christmas and Our Lady of Guadalupe early. Is there any better way to handle this conflict of calendars?
Read moreExpecting a blue Christmas?
I wonder whether there are Catholic parishes that offer a blue Christmas worship service too? And what liturgical forms are proving helpful here?
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