“Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.” ~G.K. Chesterton (b. 1874- d. 1936) It is moving closer to the Nativity of Our Lord, the 25th day of December.…
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Christmas in June
~It is six months to Christmas; and today is Little Christmas. The tradition of celebrating a monthly Christmas is explained in the following (with edits) post from August of 2017. May you have a good Little Christmas. ~SCF A tradition which you may enjoy taking up is the celebrating of Christmas on the twenty-fifth day of every month, making the twenty-fifth…
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Let Us Keep a Catholic Christmas
Because this is worth repeating: let us keep a Catholic Christmas, friends. It is often hard to do, to break with the world, but let us do it. So, for today, we are posting these thoughts* from the 3rd of January 2019: The other night, while driving in a suburb of what used to be known as Steel City, we…
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Merry Christmas!
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” ~Charles Dickens Merry Christmas to you and yours! ~S.C. Fischer, K. Anne, Christen Marian, B. Anne, and A. Therese
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Keep Mary in Christmas
~The following is a post printed in 2018. We are re-publishing it today with a few modifications. “Those holy heads are too near together for the halos not to mingle and cross.” ~G.K. Chesterton As you think of the Christmas story this week, notice something very Catholic in it; specifically, the origins of our love and devotion to the Blessed Virgin…
