Enter Into the Holy Silence of the Christmas Octave
Pause and ponder the miracle we’re celebrating.
Pause and ponder the miracle we’re celebrating.
COMMENTARY: My favorite part of the day was when I would lie beneath the tree, gazing upwards at the bubble lights. I cupped the Baby Jesus from the manger in my hands and imagined holding the real Infant in my arms.
Leo framed Christmas as a proclamation that peace is not merely a hope for the future but a gift already present in Christ in a weary world.
COMMENTARY: Christmas is a celebration when the Church seeks to renew in every baptized Catholic the call to go out, to announce, to witness, to share the joy that Jesus has brought into the world.
‘Let us marvel, dear brothers and sisters, at the wisdom of Christmas. In the Child Jesus, God gives the world a new life: his own, offered for all. He does not give us a clever solution to every problem, but a love story that draws us in. In response to the expectations of peoples, he sends a Child to be a word of hope.’
Pope Leo XIV, at Christmas Mass during the night, said Christ’s birth brings light into the world’s darkness — and where the human person is welcomed, God is welcomed too.
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Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Jeff Cavins, and other Register friends share their most memorable Christmas presents.
Holy See and Italian authorities are collaborating to welcome an estimated 30 million people expected to come to Rome throughout the jubilee year.
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