Merry Christmas, for the Twelfth time this Christmas Season!
Today is the 12th Day since Christmas Day. The formal liturgical Christmas Season will go on until the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord on Sunday the 10th, which brings us back to Ordinary Time (for a more extensive discussion of the Liturgical Calendar and Christmas, go HERE). Some of us, however, will stubbornly keep the decorations up until the Feast of the Presentation on February 2nd . . . and shouldn't all of us carry at least a little Christmas Joy with us throughout the year?
In that spirit (so to speak), I’d the like to quote the Spirit of Christmas Present from the 1951 film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (a speech not found, alas, in Dickens' book itself):
We spirits of Christmas do not live
only one day of our year.
We live the whole 365.
So is it true of the child
born in Bethlehem.
He does not live in men's hearts only
one day of the year,
but in all the days of the year.
And so I think it’s apt, one more time, to hear one of my favorite Christmas songs, “O Holy Night”. This lovely rendition is by the Irish group Affiniti:
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