Christmas season
Celebrate Christmas 2008 with stories about the Christmas season, such as St. Nicholas, St. Francis and the crèche, and more. Epiphany ends this Catholic Christmas season celebration.
Looking Back (Back to Today)
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Advent-Christmas Calendar
Select a date to change this page’s Meditation, Activity and Peacemaking Idea through the season: the First Sunday of Advent through the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
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The Coming Kingdom
This week, during your quiet time, think about Isaiah’s graphic descriptions of the Kingdom, and imagine seeing all of it with your own eyes.

Activity
Make a paper chain to count the days before Christmas. Write a task on the inside of each link, for example: "Offer the birds a piece of bread or some seed," or "Send a Christmas card to a lonely person." As family members remove links, this not only marks the days but also prepares our hearts for Christmas.

Peacemaking Idea
Spend some quiet time thinking about and praying for innocent people who are suffering.




Franciscan Communications: YouTube for Advent
2008 Advent Catholic Treasures with Father Greg Friedman, O.F.M.
- “Why is Christmas on Dec. 25?”
- “Where did the custom of the Christmas tree come from?”
- “Caught in Christmas nostalgia?”

What Are We Waiting For?
The celebration of Christmas is not a sentimental waiting for a baby to be born, but much more an asking for history to be born, according to Franciscan Father Richard Rohr, author of Preparing for Christmas With Richard Rohr: Daily Meditations for Advent. Catholics, he says, do the gospels no favor when making Jesus, the eternal Christ, into a perpetual baby, a baby able to ask for little or no adult response.

The True Gift of Christmas
From St. Anthony Messenger magazine
A little boy in an airport rekindles a priest’s love for the holiday season.

Sunday Soundbite

Q U I C K L I N K S
Incarnation of Jesus (United States Catholic Catechism for Adults)
 


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