News Item: : Christmas Every Day!
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Tuesday 27 December 2016 - 00:37:49

Et verbum caro factum est - And the Word became flesh.

The 70's glam-rock song ''I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day'' is pretty well ubiquitous in England's shopping centres during the lead-up to the Christmas season. Of course, having celebrated ''X-mas'' since mid-November, the secular culture has moved on from Christmas by now, with the ''January'' sales already in full swing.

In the Catholic Church, however, we are still close to the beginning of the grace-filled Christmas season.

Today's feast of St. John the Evangelist can help us to remember that, even beyond the Octave of Christmas and the 12 Days of Christmas, Catholics really do have Christmas every single day of the year.

This is particularly brought home in the Traditional Latin Mass, which always ends with the Last Gospel from the Gospel of St. John. 

Close to the end of that Gospel, the priest proclaims St. John's words: ''ET VERBUM CARO FACTUM EST'' (AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH).

At the moment those words are pronounced by the priest, he and the entire congregation fall to their knees in reverent awe at this central mystery of our Faith.

In the same way that the very celebration of Christmas - Christ's Mass - originally came through the Catholic Church, so too does the chance to really have Christmas every day of the year.

So there we have it: Become a traditional Catholic and have Christmas every day!

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