Christmas – Catholic Stand

Give God the Gift of Your Heart This Christmas

Diana Ragsdale December 24, AD2025 1 Comment

Christmas is the time of gift giving. And when we try to give gifts to those we hold dear to us we want it to

How to Be Like Scrooge This Christmas

Laura DeMaria December 18, AD2025 3 Comments

When you hear someone described as a “Scrooge,” that means miserly, miserable, and greedy, right? Well, the other side of Ebenezer Scrooge – the way

For Your Christmas Intentions – The St. Andrew Novena

Mary Ennis Meo December 15, AD2025 2 Comments

Sometime during late childhood, I acquired a Christmas prayer card with these words on the back: Holy and blessed be the hour and the moment

Keep the “Mass” in “Christmas”

Dan Fitzpatrick December 6, AD2025 3 Comments

This time of year, Christians frequently declare, “Keep ‘Christ’ in ‘Christmas’!” It’s a good motto to follow. But just as important for Catholics is to

The Christmas Season Is Still A Long Ways Away

Dan Fitzpatrick November 29, AD2025 5 Comments

November will soon end and December will begin. To most people that erroneously means it is Christmas season. Devout Catholic families know this is not

Where Our Lord Dwells

Carol Monaco December 30, AD2024 No Comments

Are you searching for something special this Christmas season? Do you sense something is missing, but you are not sure what it is? You may

Be Patient with the ‘Chreasters’ at Christmas Masses

Genesius December 24, AD2024 4 Comments

Because of all the ‘Chreasters,’ standing room only and even overflows at Mass regularly happen on the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord. A

Wait With Expectant Joy This Christmas

Melanie Jean Juneau December 24, AD2024 1 Comment

Do we wait like jaded adults who are closed off to any spiritual surprises after years of unanswered prayers or do we wait like joyful

Is ‘Merry Christmas’ a welcome tradition or a defiant cheer?

Dennis Dillon December 7, AD2024 3 Comments

Four years ago I asked here are CS, is “Saying Merry Christmas an Act Of Defiance To The Secular Left?” This year I am asking

Of Miracles and the Christmas Orange

Cynthia Millen January 8, AD2024 8 Comments

Our country is not very old. My maternal grandfather fought in World War I. His grandfather fought in the Civil War for the Michigan Infantry,

Let Your Faith Be Your Star

Gabriel Garnica January 1, AD2024 1 Comment

As we are literally wrapped up in the Christmas Season and at the beginning of the New Year, it is easy to become overwhelmed with

A Mother’s Love

Carol Monaco December 31, AD2023 5 Comments

This year, I celebrate Christmas for the first time in my life without my mother. Mom passed away in November. While many Christmas gifts come

Why Catholics Should Visit a Franciscan Church this Christmas Season

Tom Thomas December 26, AD2023 4 Comments

I want to do something that will recall the memory of that Child who was born in Bethlehem, to see with bodily eyes the inconveniences

An Attitude of Gratitude for Christmas

Diana Ragsdale December 25, AD2023 1 Comment

It is easy for Christmas to be commercialized and to forget its true meaning. What many people may not realize is just as easy as

Longing For Jesus

Mark Belanger December 24, AD2023 9 Comments

My first memory that distinctly involves Advent is of an Advent calendar – a somewhat esoteric object in 1950s Kansas, if I recall correctly. I

The Only Thing Necessary for Peace and Goodwill

Mary Ennis Meo December 17, AD2023 5 Comments

And suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel, praising God and saying: ‘Glory to God in the highest and on

Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas?

Gene M. Van Son December 16, AD2023 14 Comments

Are you a Happy Holidays kind of person or a Merry Christmas person? If you are former, phooey on you. If you are the later,

Two Christmases, Two Very Different Outcomes

Larry Peterson December 12, AD2023 3 Comments

What a difference 32 years can make. This is about two men – a 28-year-old man living during the Christmas season of 1942, and a

The Crazy World We Live In

Gene M. Van Son December 9, AD2023 1 Comment

During Advent last year (2022) Catholic Nuns surprised holiday shoppers in Downtown Boston on Thursday December 8. They stood outside in the cold singing Christmas