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Christmas
December 25, 2020
Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

Love Child

Love and human life are meant for each other. This infant’s very tiny passage through life showed that fact with mysterious clarity.

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser

The Mysticism of the Crib

What goes on in the mind of a child when she or he looks at the infant, Jesus, sleeping in a manger of straw, surrounded by Mary, Joseph, the shepherds and the various animals?

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

A Child Is Born

When Christ is born, a great light is shined in our darkness because God is in our midst now.

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Reflections

Larry
Gillick, SJ

Prayer

The “littlest star,” the “littlest tree,” the “littlest snowflake” and even a laughed-at-reindeer, all speak of how God blesses our lowly condition and raises us all to the dignity of God’s family.

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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

Tidings of Great Joy

The “tidings of great joy [are] to be shared by the whole people,” and no one is to be left out.

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

Humanity

When Jesus came, God was speaking directly to us. Does he still speak to us today through the Holy Spirit?

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A Poem to
Sit With

J Janda

What Child Is This?

How could it be that the Creator of the Universe would come to me
as a helpless baby lying in straw in a manger?

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