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Standing room only

Sunday, December 21, 2008
By goodwink
Standing room only
When admittance to the nativity scene is free and open to the public, Bethlehem can get a little crowded—but the crèche is enriched because of it.
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Open some doors this Advent

Monday, November 24, 2008
By goodwink
Open some doors this Advent
"Listen! I am standing at the door knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat with you, and you with me" (Rev. 3:20).
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Get wrapped up in family traditions this Christmas

Monday, November 24, 2008
By goodwink
Get wrapped up in family traditions this Christmas
THE CHRISTMAS MY DAUGHTER WAS 6 AND MY SON WAS 3 was probably the low point. Not that it lacked anything, you understand. Quite the contrary.
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What child is this?

Monday, November 24, 2008
By goodwink
What child is this?
Christmas Day of the year of the Lord 2000. Two thousand years of the reality of the Incarnation of God in human flesh, the coming of the holy into our midst, the poor son of Mary and her husband, Joseph, son of God and son of Man, firstborn of all creation.
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Have yourself a defiant little Christmas

Monday, November 24, 2008
By goodwink
Have yourself a defiant little Christmas
In those long ago days of Christmas innocence when it always snowed gently in a starry and windless night, my parents would hustle my sisters and me into the back seat of the car, and we would drive slowly, snow crunching under the frozen tires, into the neighborhoods of the rich to see the lights.
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What are you waiting for?

Monday, November 24, 2008
By goodwink
ADVENT IS THE LITURGICAL SEASON OF VIGILANCE OR, to put it more mundanely, of waiting. During the four weeks prior to Christmas, we light the candles of our Advent wreaths and put ourselves in the spiritual space of the Israelite people who, through many long centuries, waited for the coming of the Messiah ("How long, O Lord?").
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