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  • Keeping Mary in Christmas

    “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 Mary. Our devotion to Our Lady springs from the fact that the Son of God was conceived by…

  • 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…

  • Christmas in Culture

    The holy night of Christmas has passed, but we remain in the liturgical season of Christmas, surrounded by the mysteries of the manger where Jesus Christ was born. These mysteries have been lauded in poem and song through the years; and for today, I am posting two examples of such. The first is the poem titled Noel by the Catholic writer,…