Christmas

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Throw Open the Doors to Christ

At those places in the world where God is active in the ministry of Jesus Christ, the Spirit throws open those doors that all too often we want to close.
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Scene from A Charlie Brown Christmas

The Spiritual Insight of Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown’s emotional honesty, intellectual curiosity, and overall bravery—amidst unmet expectations, failure, shame, and humiliation—reflects the spiritual path for each of us.
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A COVID-19 Christmas

In the midst of these uncertain times, here are five ways to rethink your Advent and Christmas season.
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Dear Reader: Endings and Beginnings

This has been a difficult year, for sure. But in the birth of Christ, we celebrate the arrival of the hope we long for right now. All of us at Franciscan Media wish you a very blessed Christmas and New ...
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Embracing Advent

At the heart of Advent are these key themes: attention, trust, and celebration.
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Substituting for the Gloria

For the past few years, from midnight Christmas through Epiphany, the director of music in our parish has elected to use "Angels We Have Heard on High" instead of the Gloria. What is proper in this regard?
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