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Christmas
Christmas presence
November 30, 2021
Can we look forward to a better feast this year?
A lockdownless Christmas
November 25, 2021
Christmas celebrations this year will, thank God, be very different from the last. Ordinary life has for the most part resumed in Britain; in some respects, churches lag behind other parts of society in returning to normal. Many parish churches still require masks, social distancing, taped-off pews and thus limit the size of congregations. Others
The Blessed Mother Was a Perfect Mother, and Her Home Must Have Been a Zoo
December 28, 2020
Mary Pezzulo watched her share of Christmas dreck when she was a child. Most were harmless cheesy fun, but she didn't like the Little Drummer Boy.
Favorite Christmas Books, Movies, Music, Stories
December 24, 2020
Chapter House columnists and contributors to this page share their favorite Christmas story, book, movie, or music.
SVP President: This Christmas, embrace ‘sour adversity’.
December 22, 2020
"We must not forget those left homeless, fatally indebted, bereaved, isolated or suffering the agony of mental health problems," says SVP President Helen O'Shea.
‘Are Those Table Runners?’ Asked the Woman Who’d Lost Everything Just Before Christmas
December 21, 2020
She had her left leg on one of those little scooters people use when they’ve broken an ankle. She’d asked the clerk at St. Vincent de Paul to take a drip coffee maker out of the box. It was new, still in the wrapping, and cost about $2.00, maybe $3.00. Everything’s sold as is and
Christmas at the end of the world
December 19, 2020
The desire to praise and the carrying about of our mortality – our death – with us: these are constants of nature after the Fall, and always come to us admixed almost indiscriminately.
Christmas: a time for taking time
December 16, 2020
The habit of starting celebrations too soon and finishing them too soon is the worst aspect of a secular Christmas. The great thing is to start your own celebrations on Christmas Eve and keep them going right through the Twelve Days.
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