Christmas | The Christian Review

Advent: The Season of Two Comings

by Father Frank Pavone | Dec 6, 2019 | abortion, Catholic Church, Christmas, Culture, Featured, Scripture | 0 |

Advent is upon us. The word means “coming” and the season focuses first on Christ’s second coming at the end of time, and then on the historical reality of his first coming and his birth at Christmas. When the...

Avoiding the Widening Gyre of Our Times — A Nativity Reflection

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Dec 24, 2018 | Books, Catholic Church, Christmas, Culture, Faith, Featured, Literature, Poetry, Spirituality | 0 |

Let us not get caught up in the widening gyre. Let us not stumble.

Christmas Gifts of Music to Freshen the Season and The Whole Year

by Carl C. Curtis | Dec 16, 2018 | Christmas, Featured, Music | 0 |

How do we avoid the deadly familiarity that might render songs about the greatest of events, God’s becoming man, a great big bore?

Why the Wise Men Followed the Star

by Deal Hudson | Dec 23, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Scripture | 0 |

Their experience with the babe in a manger seemed to announce the beginning of a life that would overturn the order of things and challenge the supremacy of all earthly powers.

Christmas Is Also for the Unborn!

by Father Frank Pavone | Dec 22, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Saints | 0 |

Our Christmas cannot be complete until we join in the great effort to end the oppression of the unborn once and for all. In the merciful and loving example of our Lord, let us make room for them, too.

Christmas Gifts: Making a Joyful Noise With Three Singers and a Pianist

by Carl C. Curtis | Dec 10, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Music | 0 |

Beyond the joys of piano, the delights of the soprano are not to be ignored, and I have three to place under the tree, and they are sublime.

The 100 Best Catholic Films for Christmas

by Deal Hudson | Dec 5, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Movies | 12 |

In offering this list, I am not following any theological guidelines, rather I am concerned with...

Prepare The Way of the Lord: Our World Needs Advent!

by Father Frank Pavone | Dec 1, 2017 | Christmas, Family, Featured, Spirituality | 0 |

Abortion continues to tear apart children in the womb, their families, and our whole society. Ours is a world that needs Advent, a world that needs Christ.

Eight Recordings for Christmas — From Grand Mahler and Sacred Rachmaninov to Superlative Rozsa and a Requiem for Mothers

by Deal Hudson | Nov 19, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Music | 0 |

I always come back to Haydn, even before Mozart, but I’m not going to argue the case — I am immediately drawn in to his sound world, so full of emotion, of dancing and weeping, and the conductor Giovanni Antonini is afraid of neither.

Let’s Stop Sneering at the “Christmas and Easter Catholics”

by Mike Eisenbath | Apr 7, 2016 | Catholic Church, Christmas, Faith, Featured, Friendship, Liturgy, Manners, Spirituality | 4 |

I’m actually someone who misses all those Christmas-and-Easter Catholics on the 50 other Sundays. Their spots in the pews are lonely when vacant. No matter what the ages are of those people who could fill those places, we miss them in our worship. We miss their voices and prayers, their spirit and their needs.