Dear Friends, Greetings again to all of you and to your families. Here we are getting ready for all of our pre-Christmas activities. The liturgical biblical readings are most inspiring in this time of Advent, a time of hope and of preparation for Christmas. Some families here have the custom of having the Advent wreath in their living rooms and they light one of the four candles during each week of Advent.
Some families have family prayers and the reading of Scripture passages on each evening.
The feast of Christmas itself brings different reactions to different people. For some of the elderly they often experience loneliness or at times the abandonment of their own children. For the poor children who pass by the store windows and see the nice Christmas toys and know that they will never be able to have such toys, there is another reaction. For people who don't believe in the coming of the child Jesus, as our Lord and Savior, there is another reaction. For other people who are so involved in their businesses and other activities, there isn't any time to even think of the true signification of Christmas.