We once more celebrate Christmas Day, with the popular and commercialised figures such as of ‘Santa Clause’ – or the Coca-Cola man, as I sometimes call him, after those television advertisements – and reindeer, and mistletoe and wine, and children singing Christian rhyme. I’m really glad, there are still children singing Christian rhyme, because asContinue reading “Giving and receiving (Christmas Day)”
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Christmas Day! At last…
“The shepherds had more to rejoice about than simply proving the words of the angels on the hills. As religious Jews, they may have remembered the lines of Isaiah, given us by the first reading at the dawn Mass, which were coming to fruition before their eyes.”