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Since childhood, Heisler had a love for athletics, particularly basketball. But a car accident threatened to derail everything.
"Silent Night" was sung for the first time that Christmas Eve at a midnight Mass at St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf, a village in the Austrian Empire. The lyrics were written by a young Catholic priest, Father Joseph Mohr, and the music was composed by Francis Xavier Gruber, an organist and school master.
Once a month, the needy in Woodstock are relieved of their worries thanks to the arrival of the Catholic Charities Mobile Response Center vehicle.
Recently, a group of students from Christendom College escaped Rome and their studies during a semester abroad for a weekend pilgrimage to Norcia, a small town in the Umbria region of Italy.
Here in Rome, Advent is a beautiful season. Storefronts are being decorated and ancient cobblestone streets are coming to life with lights and evergreens.
At first thought, St. Lucy, a third-century martyr, may not be what we think of as a “Christmas saint,” such as St. Nicholas.
Lately, the news has really weighed me down. It is heartbreaking to see the raging fires in California night after night and take in scenes of ravaged land, smoldering ruins and broken lives.
My 4-year-old granddaughter Charlotte is allowed to play with her family Christmas creche.
Deploring the commercialization, secularization and general thinning-out of the spiritual meaning of Christmas is part of the stock in trade of commentators on things religious of whom your humble servant is one. Nor should we fail to mention those annual church-state battles in the season of good will over whether Nativity scenes should or shouldn’t be allowed on public property.
Christmas tree sales prove lucrative fundraisers.
