I have a vivid
memory of a Christmas years ago, shortly after my return to the Faith, seeing
the Christmas tree literally hurled through the front door on the afternoon of
Christmas Day (this at the home of relatives who shall remain unnamed). I was struck by how switched-around things
had become, how the commercial “holiday season” had so thoroughly subverted the
traditional liturgical “Christmas Season”.
Since that time my Lovely Bride and I have been looking for ways to
preserve and honor Advent as a season of penitence and preparation, and Christmas
(all of it) in its proper place, as “Christ’s Mass”.
We have
found this endeavor to be more difficult than it sounds: it’s hard to be
penitential when everyone around you is celebrating, and hard as well to
celebrate when everyone else is worn out from revelry. I was musing on all this as I sat in the pew
before Midnight Mass, and it occurred to me that, since I have a blog, one
thing I could do is to post something specific to each of the Twelve Days
through the Christmas Season. It need
not be something long or involved (in fact, brevity would be a plus), but it
should be relevant. I began planning my
posts on the spot: you can see my posts for Days 1 and 2 here and here.
I suspect that it
might become difficult to keep it up as the Christmas Season approaches its
end, but part of the purpose of the Twelve Posts of Christmas is to keep myself
focused on the real “Reason for the Season” as Christ’s Church has given it to
us; I hope to help others to do the same.
Merry Christmas to all!
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