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Merry Christmas everyone! As we continue our celebration of the Christmas season and celebrate today the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I’d like to share with you this prayer for Families composed by St. Mother Teresa…

“Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from the store, maybe Christmas means just a little bit more.” Those are the words from the story of the Grinch and they’re also words that kept jumping into my mind as in the months and weeks leading up to Christmas. We heard all kinds of warnings about getting everything that we needed for Christmas early because of all the supply chain issues. If we wait until the last minute...

As we continue through this Advent season and draw closer to our celebration of Christmas, we’re probably all at different points in our Christmas shopping. Maybe we’ve got it all done, maybe we’ve still got a few things left to get, or maybe we haven’t even started yet. Maybe we’ve ordered something and are still waiting for it to arrive, maybe we weren’t able to find the gift that we wanted to get for someone, maybe all we’ve got left to do is wrap and bag the gifts that we bought for our loved ones.

 This week, we celebrate on Wednesday, the great Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We celebrate the Immaculate Conception on December 8th each year and then we celebrate Mary’s birthday on September 8th of the following year, 9 months to the day since we celebrated her conception. It’s the same with Jesus, we celebrate the Annunciation on March 25th and then 9 months later, on December 25th, we celebrate his birth at Christmas. Just an interesting way that the liturgical calendar is sketched out.