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our faith in Jesus Christ.” Gather around the table. “I’m a big believer in the power of the table,” said Bishop Caggiano. “I think the season of Advent and Christmas is the ideal time ...

I was placing flowers by my parents’ gravestone ... This way of telling Jesus’ story picks up a prophetic text often read at Christmas time. Isaiah Chapter 11 speaks of the coming king ...

From time to time this ... until one recalls that it is Jesus himself who has been proposed as the exemplar of the “manly and virile” faith found at the root of Christmas trees festooned ...

When I was a tween, and just beginning to be conscious about the giving of gifts, my sisters and I were Christmas ... Jesus waited his turn in the holiest spot in the house. When gift-giving time ...

When Father Bob came into my 4-year-old daughter’s hospital room on Christmas, I was watching ... out of respect for Jesus, Santa and God, I made the muscles of my face form a smile. “ ...

The enduring significance of Christmas ... one another. Jesus then says this: “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do ...

My goodness, how we twisted the meaning of Christmas. How we have commercialized Christmas.” Instead, he said, the Christmas message is that Jesus ... should have been a time of joy; instead ...