Among my many T-shirts—we Boomers invented the T-shirt, you know!—is one that displays the Celtic Cross, under which are the words Síocháin ‘s Dóchas—”peace and hope,” in the language of my Irish ancestors. With the year 2020 happily coming to its inglorious close, I look forward to the possibility of peace and the opportunity for […]
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“God bless Us, Every One.” -Tiny Tim I am quite certain that I have seen every movie version of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, and at least one live stage performance. And just this past weekend I saw the most recent screen adaptation, titled The Man Who Invented Christmas. Though not exactly the
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Growing up in a conventional Catholic home in 1950’s America, I experienced the Christmas manger display as central to the holiday celebration, more so even than Santa Claus and the Christmas tree. Santa–more formally, St. Nicholas–and the tree were both recognized as honored traditions of the season, but the manger scene–set in a straw-covered, stable-like
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