Holy Night
Christmas is the feast of being over having. He who had everything abandoned everything to help us be more. Thanks to the Incarnation we can be more human because we can be more like God, our Father and Creator. Ever since that time Christianity has emphasised that human...
Christmas and the crucifix, a contradiction?
If Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ, would it make sense to set baby Jesus in front of a huge crucifix that serves as the backdrop of a crib? The majority of us would definitely find it contradictory. Not so, says Sr Agnese Zammit, a cloister nun at St...
The ruins of the Opera House in Valletta have been converted into a little stretch of Bethlehem where various re-enactors are recreating the nativity scene. The site also features a number of folkloric attractions such as a potter and a blacksmith at work, a bakery and a set...
What is it with celebrating Christmas nowadays? It seems that it's all about staff parties, dinners, gifts, nice wrapping papers, cards, house decorating, turkey stuffing, mince pies and other such things. Is there something wrong? No, not at all. The only problem is that...
Advent is a time of reflection and conversion. When we generally use the term conversion we generally mean getting rid of some defect or vice that we have. Very frequently conversion is understood as personal or individual conversion. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Holy...
