Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus, and his name is St. Nicholas!

We humans are very involved with numbers. We use numbers for identification, for communication, for evaluation, for measuring,...

A reading from the prophecy of Isaiah (Chapter 52:7-10) Isaiah spoke about someone coming who “brings glad tidings, announcing...

Joseph Mohr was born in Salzburg, in what is now Austria, in 1792 under inauspicious circumstances. His mother was an unmarried...

We recently been seeing the removal and even destruction of statues of certain famous people who, besides their heroic deeds, had...

These days I see advertisements for Advent calendars. What I see are kits that have the first 24 days of December displayed with...

Here we are, coming fast to the end of the year. Two big holidays punctuate these last days: Thanksgiving and Christmas. People...

It is almost time for me to put away at least some of my Christmas decorations. I am a figurine collector. All year round, most...

There is a warm, soft blanket at the foot of my bed. My cat, Buddy, loves to get on top of it and, with his front paws as if he...