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Advent & 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?
Read moreChristmas Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica
It’s hard to hold your camera in one hand and your booklet in the other, trying to watch the conductor out of the corner of your eye as you focus your camera on the center aisle – all the while translating the Italian translation of the Latin text of the introit for spiritual benefit.
Read moreThe Kneeling God – a Christmas reflection
by Robert E. Adrian.
“And it was as if God slipped into the world one night when nobody much was looking, to kneel with outstretched hands toward you and me.”