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Christmas
December 25, 2023
Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

Love's 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

Giving Birth to God

God always enters the world in the same way that Jesus did on the first Christmas. God is gestated in a womb and appears as a helpless infant that has to be picked up, nurtured, and coaxed into adulthood.

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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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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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