To the editor:
As Christmas approaches, delivery vehicles are traveling across the highways and byways delivering packages containing Christmas gifts. Shoppers are busy choosing gifts, either online or in the stores. 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.
Catholics believe that Christ is present at every Mass. If you heard that Jesus Christ were coming to your church in person, wouldn’t you line up to see Him?
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 the time for Christmas services at the church of your choice.
Let’s fill our churches this Christmas. Then, keep the light of Christ in you by attending every weekend. Bring your children. They are our future. Remember, if your church isn’t crying, it’s dying. As Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” (Matthew 19:14)
Bring Christ back into Christmas and let His light shine in you.
Jeannine A. Young
Craftsbury Common
