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Celebrate the astonishing love of Christmas

The True Love of Christmas
Open one of these gifts each day of the Christmas Season and discover a practice that celebrates God's love and the joy of Jesus' birth.
Christmas Beginnings
Christmas is not just a day or
even a season of the year—an event on
the calendar that arrives and passes. No,
Christmas is much more than
that. It is a permanent change that enters into our
world for keeps.
Being like Jesus
Christmas reminds us that God became a
human being just like us, with
eyes and ears, with a mouth and hands, with a
heart and feet. Share these prayers from children in celebration of God's presence with us and love for all people.
Finding God in the Eyes of a Child
Underneath all of
the busyness, the
rushing, the effervescence of the holidays, there is the
mystery of
infinite love, waiting to take flesh yet again, to surprise us, to
remind us of the hope and the promise that comes in the stable in
Bethlehem, in
the stable of our own hearts, in the stillness of
the winter night.
The Christmas Story
"God loves us so much that in order to
communicate with us, God has spoken in our language, the language we
can
understand, the language of being human."
BETHLEHEM, A BIRTH AND A BABY
When we do
this—when we go back and take a closer look at this
strange story of Christmas Eve, we notice some very striking
things—things that all of us
might just find
worth
singing about.
PIPER CITY CHRISTMAS
When Fred Borsch visited his grandparents' home during the holidays, a body in the parlor was a regular part of the domestic scene.
YOU, TOO, CAN BE A STAR
If you choose to be a star this Christmas, spend time reading,
reflecting and
praying—then re-reading, reflecting and praying
again—through the Gospels, so you learn what it is to follow Jesus.
PRAYERS FOR LIVING: CHRISTMAS PRAYERS
Special holiday prayers for comfort, peace, celebrating with joy, and for those who are alone
GUIDED PRAYER IN TEXT AND AUDIO
Celebrate Christmas in prayer.