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The 12 Days of Christmas – darkness and light
December 02, 2022
Our editorial team reflect on the darkness and light embedded within the Christmas season, reminding us of Christ's immediate persecution and the Massacre of the Holy Innocents
Let us prepare to rediscover the value of waiting this Advent
November 27, 2022
To look forward to the coming of Christ, to want to meet Him when He returns, we have to appreciate what He did for us the first time round. We have to look with love and tenderness on the Crib. We have to wonder at the fact God loves us so much that He became this small and this vulnerable. We have to encounter the overwhelming love of Christ on the Cross. He suffered all this for my sake. Someone – God – loves me this much.
Advent: let’s keep our eyes on the prize
November 26, 2022
Advent: the time of arriving, the beginning of the Church’s year, a season of preparation that concludes on Christmas Eve. Pope Francis tells us that Advent “begins a time of consolation and hope. A new liturgical year begins, which brings with it the novelty of our God, who is the ‘God of all consolation’. I wish you to experience Advent thus, as a time of consoling novelty, and joyous waiting.” 
Dickens has been proved wrong about the festive season
January 01, 2022
A Christmas Carol rightly attacked the materialism of old Ebenezer Scrooge, but now materialism is all that counts at New Year
Don’t they know it’s Christmas?
December 26, 2021
Compliments of the season to all our readers. This may seem like an odd observation in the January issue of this paper, but it is correct. As Fr Richard Ounslow points out in his scripture column, most of the Christmas season falls in January. Properly, Christmas starts and Advent finishes on the night of Christmas
Christmas is in January
December 26, 2021
The last day is the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord on 9 January
Christmas books for children
December 02, 2021
“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents”, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.” The opening of Little Women has had children nodding in agreement since 1869 and my generation at least was horrified when the secret present that they each received was a copy of Pilgrim’s Progress. Little Women begins and ends at Christmas, and
Diary: Memories of Christmas down the years and across the seas
November 30, 2021
It was when I first saw Uncle John Harman’s black trousers protruding under Father Christmas’s scarlet robe that my world changed. Up till then I had taken it for granted that grown-ups did not tell lies. Those stories of Father Christmas coming down the chimney, of Father Christmas reading my carefully written yet impassioned pleas
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