Christmas is a Season!
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29 December 2007
The Christmas Season
Christmas is a season!
It is common to focus our attention on Christmas Eve
and on Christmas day. Usually our preparations are
all geared up for the celebration of Christmas Day
itself: in our parishes and in our own families and
homes. But Christmas is a season. And it will last
until Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord. After
Christmas Day, we have figures also prominent in our
liturgy: St. Stephen, St. John the Evangelist, the
Holy Innocents, St. Thomas Becket, the Holy Family,
Mary the Mother of God, St. Elizabeth Seton, and
St. John Neumann. Knowing how these feasts connect
with the Christmas season is really something to
reflect on.
The readings for the Christmas season and for the
feast of the Holy Family are given also in this
web site. There is a difference of experiencing God’s
Word as we hear it in Mass and as we read and meditate
on them in private. The ideal is to integrate the
insights and the wisdom we have learned from the
Word as we hear them at Mass and as we reflect on
them privately. At Mass, we have the help of the
priest to explain the readings to us through his
homily. Then in our own private prayerful reading,
it is by the grace of God’s Holy Spirit that we can
learn more intimately the Word and how it relates to
our personal lives.
Now that the year is about to end, many of us are
planning what we are to do the coming year, the year
2008. For those of you who may be interested to
start something similar to what we are doing in this
site, 2008 could be a good year to start and begin
something new. Writing Catholic articles and posting
in Catholic web logs is also a spiritual experience
that expands our understanding of the faith. As
one organizes one’s ideas and thoughts and arranges
them to represent a whole, we get inspired to write
in a way that helps build, edify, strengthen, consoles,
comforts, and all the positive energies that goes with
writing to propagate the Catholic faith. Even by
just writing the text of the lectionary readings, we
already get a sense of the sacred, a sense of the
holy, that is not present in just plain secular
writing. So, if interested in this venture, why
not make it this 2008.
