To the editor:
During this Advent season, hundreds of delivery vehicles are crisscrossing the country delivering packages containing Christmas gifts. Stores are jammed with shoppers, with their shopping lists for Christmas gifts. Homes and businesses are decorated with lights, Santas, snowmen, nativity scenes and more. Why all this hustle and bustle and decorating? They are preparing for Christmas.
What is Christmas? For Christians, Christmas is the celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, the son of God.
If you’re not celebrating the birth of Jesus, why all the decorating and shopping? What are you celebrating?
Do you remember the days when you had to get to church half an hour before services just to get a seat? Now, seats are aplenty.
What is the best gift you can give this year? Give yourself the gift of faith. Give an hour of your time to the Lord and feel the love of God.
Plan to attend Christmas services at your church-even if you haven’t been in a while, even a long while.
Christmas Masses at St. Norbert’s Church in Hardwick are Christmas Eve at 4 p.m., and Christmas Day at 8:30 a.m. Christmas Eve Mass at St. Michael’s in Greensboro Bend is at 6 p.m. Or, find out the time for Christmas services at the church of your choice.
Let’s fill our churches this Christmas.
Bring Christ back into Christmas and let His light shine in you.
Jeannine A. Young
Craftsbury Common
