FR. ED BROOM, OMV

The key to the success of the party or celebration depends upon the prior preparation for the party. In other words, the more intense the preparation, normally and in most cases, the more successful the celebration.

This concept can be and should be applied every year in the preparation for the most important birthday in the history of humanity — the Birthday of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ — the day we call Christmas!

Due to Materialism, Consumerism, Hedonism, growing Agnosticism, as well as militant and rapidly growing Atheism, the true meaning of Christmas is slowly being suffocated in modern society. Once a Christian nation, the United States is gradually turning into a secular, even paganistic nation. Instead of the motto, “In God we trust”,the common prevalent mode and mood is,“In money and material things I trust!”

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