Dark Santa
Mary Wellesley at The Spectator
Christmas
Christmas Quotes
“For while all things were in quiet silence and the night was in the midst of her course, thy almighty word leapt down from heaven from thy royal throne.” Book of Wisdom.
“[This] passage, brimming with the mystery of the Incarnation, is wonderfully expressive of the infinite stillness that hovered
Don't Let Your Left Hemisphere Ruin Christmas
"I wouldn’t upset my plan for anything. I’d rather upset life than the plan." The Anonymous Schoizoid
The left hemisphere doesn't live. It thinks.
It plans: "How to do this?" "How to tackle that?"
The best way to develop a
Christmas Eve with GKC
In the round of our rational and mournful year one festival remains out of all those ancient gaieties that once covered the whole earth. Christmas remains to remind us of those ages, whether Pagan or Christian, when the many acted poetry instead of the few writing it. “Christmas and the
Drinking with Children
The first Christmas card
Tis the season . . . to get kids drunk.
The very first Christmas card showed a young child drinking mulled wine. It was 1843, the year Dickens' Christmas Carol came out.
One of the works of art proved very popular, selling out its first edition in six
Weigel and the Celebration of Christmas
A massive, sixteen-volume Lives of the Saints, first published between 1872 and
1877, informs me that, here in the Eternal City, the feast of Christmas first
became a celebration distinct from the ancient feast of the Epiphany in the
mid-fourth century—and that St. John Chrysostom, one of the four