What a beautiful gift for the Christ Child—to learn new carols before Christmas to help make this the most special and grace filled Christmas—whether you live alone or can gather your family together to prepare your hearts for His coming!  Carols for Christmas Circling around the tree, we would begin to sing Christmas Carols. It was a mixture of genuine joy; of pure joy; I dare say, of virginal joy. This joy gave something that I do not know how to express, but it was the idea of…

What a beautiful gift for the Christ Child—to learn new carols before Christmas to help make this the most special and grace filled Christmas—whether you live alone or can gather your family together to prepare your hearts for His coming! Carols for Christmas The joy of Christmas! It was intense, calm, sweet, elevated, bringing “order” and “equilibrium”! Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Still, Still, Still Still, Still, Still is a lullaby for the Infant Jesus that originated in Austria. Sign up to receive email updates and the Christmas Carol Book!…

What a beautiful gift for the Christ Child—to learn new carols before Christmas to help make this the most special and grace filled Christmas—whether you live alone or can gather your family together to prepare your hearts for His coming!  Carols for Christmas As Christmas approached, everything was taken by a certain peace and recollection. It was something that my soul felt, like a whisper coming from on high, more eloquent than any discourse, an invitation to no longer pay attention to other things. It seemed to me…

What a beautiful gift for the Christ Child—to learn new carols before Christmas to help make this the most special and grace filled Christmas—whether you live alone or can gather your family together to prepare your hearts for His coming!  Carols for Christmas IV The Holy Family provided a cave for their Son’s first abode and a manger for His cradle. But this Son is the Incarnate Word Himself, for whose birth the night is illuminated, Heaven is opened and the Angels sing, and for Whom, from the…

What a beautiful gift for the Christ Child—to learn new carols before Christmas to help make this the most special and grace filled Christmas—whether you live alone or can gather your family together to prepare your hearts for His coming!  Carols for Christmas III We are held by Our Lady like the Child Jesus: carried in her arms. This is what She does with our souls: She leads us and directs us to the highest pinnacles of the spiritual life, but it is She who is carrying us…

What a beautiful gift for the Christ Child—to learn new carols before Christmas to help make this the most special and grace filled Christmas—whether you live alone or can gather your family together to prepare your hearts for His coming!  Carols for Christmas II Christmas has this special privilege: it interrupts time. Someone may be in a state of distress, but Christmas arrives and an opening appears in the wall: misfortunes and tears are on one side of the wall, but the bells ring out on the other side;…

What a beautiful gift for the Christ Child—to learn new carols before Christmas to help make this the most special and grace filled Christmas—whether you live alone or can gather your family together to prepare your hearts for His coming!  Carols for Christmas The scene that is most harmonious with the blessings of Christmas is the one framed and adorned with snow. It speaks to us of innocence without stain, of pure and virginal beauty that has the ability to enchant our eyes and hearts.Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira…