24 Dec 2020 Pope Benedict Calls for a Christmas Truce During World WWI

1) Gospel - Luke 1:67-79 - The daybreak from on high has visited us

Bishop Sheen quote of the day

Pope Benedict calls fora Christmas truce during World War I http://www.churchpop.com/2014/12/25/pope-christmas-truce/

2, 3) Keeping the memory of Christmas and resisting the siren call of our culture
http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2014/12/randy-hain-the-memory-of-christmas-and-resisting-the-siren-call-of-our-culture/

3, 4) By length, Christmas is one of the shortest liturgical seasons of the Church calendar, but it's also one of its most unique. Michael Heinlein writes: “Within it is the eight-day celebration of the Lord’s Nativity — known as the Christmas Octave — as well as other feasts pertaining to the manifestation that Jesus is Lord of the nations. And there are feasts of several saints, many of whose stories contain special significance to the season”
https://simplycatholic.com/a-walk-through-the-christmas-season/