Tag: Christmas

God is a dramatist, and the first rule of drama is to make a big entrance.  In the Nativity Story, God gave His only son the grandest entrance of all time. Click

On this first Sunday of the Christmas Season, Tom Hoopes reflects on each person of the Holy Family: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph — and how to stay close to each. Also, click

I always tell my kids that the true meaning of Christmas is receiving gifts. Of course, we have it from the Lord himself that it is “more blessed to give than to

This week on Catholic Living, Tom Hoopes finds the Christian virtues of secular Christmas.

God did not make Christmas to give us warm feelings. He made it so that we would want to recommit ourselves to him.

The crèche, like the crucifix, tells a story so powerful that it turned the world upside down.

The film stars chaplain Father Simon Baker as Joseph and nursing student Sister Joan Kolbe Kjerstad as Mary.

The Church is on the side of the child because it was founded by Jesus, who came as a child and said, “Unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

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It is perhaps the best approximation of that experience available to us on earth.