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.
Today at a Glance
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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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Help Me to Love
God’s reign of justice and peace, denouncing injustice and war, teaching and practicing creative nonviolence, serving the poor, and taking up the cross.

Activity
Write down three things you like most about the customs or ceremonies of the Church. How many of them are essential and how many are cultural, changeable, particular ways of expressing Christianity?

Peacemaking Idea
Today—all day—let peace begin with you.




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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