Read our writers' reflections on the glories and challenges of the holiday season
My parents (who were not particularly religious) did give their children the gift of Advent.
My earliest recollections of Advent and Christmas date back to age four or five. During the weeks preceding Christmas, my sister, Mary and I would act out the Nativity story in our backyard…
Year by year I try to come to grips with the Magnificat’s depiction of everything in society being turned upside-down…
In Atlanta, Georgia over the past five decades, the live telecast of the 11:30 p.m. Christmas Eve service from the Cathedral of St. Philip has been a much-loved holiday tradition.
Once upon an Advent, I struggled to add dozens of Christmas obligations to an already overflowing life.
Christmastide and the Tide of Grief
When I was newly married, my maternal grandmother died suddenly of a massive stroke on December 26, 1971.
One of my favorite Advent/Christmas rituals is watching the Christmas classic that I think best mirrors the truth of the Gospel story…
I was doing some early Christmas shopping the other day in a store that offered for sale two dozen or so Advent calendars…
There are five of them. Five photos hanging on the bedroom wall, photos of women in high-lace collars with their hair pulled up in buns.
