Christmas Isn’t Over Yet: Make the Most of the Octave Season
Catholics keep Christmas alive well past Christmas Day — here’s how you can join the celebration.
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Make Christmastide Holy Again
Gifts come and go, but the love of God, family and neighbor make a holy Christmas last forever.
‘An Incredible Thing’: Catholic Groups Collect Christmas Toys for Children in Need
Much of the school community, from the athletics department to the student government, gets involved in the effort.
O Little Town of Bethlehem: Connecticut Town Celebrates Christmas All Year Long
A rural town connects beautifully to the miraculous event so long ago.
Soon-to-Be-Saint Carlo Acutis Loved Christmas
Carlo especially loved Mass on the sacred day and wrote moving reflections about the Christ Child.
Fulton Sheen Taught Me the True Meaning of Christmas
‘The higher life of man is God,’ Archbishop Sheen then says. ‘And if man is ever to be lifted up, God in some way must come down to man.’
Pope Francis on Christmas 2024: God Is Our Hope
Hope lives, Francis reminded the faithful on Christmas Eve, as he spoke of the blessed arrival of the Christ Child and the start of the Jubilee.
Silent Night, Holy Night
In the Christ child laying in a manger, we see the face of the Father’s mercy.
The Little-Known Story of a Saint’s Christmas Vision of the Infant Jesus in Rome
On Christmas Eve in 1517, the Blessed Virgin Mary placed the Christ Child in his arms of St. Cajetan during his first Mass in the Chapel of the Nativity.
Pope Francis Launches Jubilee 2025 With Opening of Holy Door
After breaking open the special door on Christmas Eve, Francis stopped at the threshold to pray briefly in silence as the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica pealed out into the cool Rome night.
