Celebrating a Merry Catholic Christmas & Around the Fire
Celebrating a Merry Catholic Christmas: A Guide to The Customs and Feast Days of Advent and ChristmasVery valuable resource for understanding and celebrating Advent and Christmas as a CatholicChristmas Around The FireChristmas Around The Fire: Stories, Essays, and Poems For The Season Of Christ's BirthCelebrating a Merry Catholic Christmas: A Guide to The Customs and Feast Days of Advent and Christmas Celebrating a Merry Catholic Christmas is a treasure, one that offers its riches year after year. It is a valuable resource for understanding and celebrating Advent and Christmas as a Catholic. But, more than providing the historical roots of traditions, such as the Advent wreath and Christmas tree, it also features spiritual reflections and suggestions for practices to enrich your family’s Christmas preparation and celebration. You’ll find all of the major Feast Days of Advent and Christmas along with devotions and traditions that will help your family get more out these important seasons. Inside you’ll learn… why candles are placed in windows why poinsettias are used as a Christmas decoration the origin of the Christmas tree when Christmas actually ends and more . . . so that you and yours can appreciate more fully the significance of these traditions and grow in love and honor of Christ. Christmas Around The Fire Christmas is a time for celebrating the birth of Jesus with family and friends, to gather together in sacred and jovial celebration of the Incarnation. Yet in our fast-paced, hyper-digitized lives, we are losing the sense of a good story, among good friends, around a good fire. In Christmas Around the Fire, Ryan Topping invites us to turn off the television set, put down the device, quiet ourselves, and gather our loved ones to enjoy some of the best writing, in a variety of forms, about Christmas. Whether or not your family has an actual fireplace around which to gather is not so important, but it helps! Included within are entries from legendary novelists and poets such as Leo Tolstoy, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Willa Cather, and more, as well as the profound thoughts of great religious figures such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Pope Saint John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI. For those who love the true spirit of the "most wonderful time of the year", and who love reading in almost equal measure, Christmas Around the Fire will quickly become a family tradition. This is one of those rarest of books, one around which family memories are made. Dimensions & Specifications Celebrating a Merry Catholic Christmas: A Guide to The Customs and Feast Days of Advent & Christmas ISBN:9781505112573 Author: Fr. William Saunders Format: Hardcover Pages: 188 Christmas Around The Fire ISBN:9781505111156 Author: Ryan S. Topping Format: Hardcover | Celebrating a Merry Catholic Christmas & Around the Fire