“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”

• Rainer Maria Rilke

“Christmas Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks to the God of all creation – Jesus, and live by His precepts…

"The great challenge left to us is to cut through all the glitz and glam of the season that has grown increasingly secular and…

"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the…

"Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel…

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given..."

• Isaiah 9:6-7

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given..."

• Isaiah 9:6-7

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and…

"God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas it is because we all have the…

“T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”

• Clement Clark Moore