Fr. Jacob’s Christmas Challenge

"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine

While it’s traditional to take down Christmas decorations at Epiphany, it’s true that “Ordinary Time” doesn’t start until the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord…

Since we’ve just entered the Christmas season, the Christmas songs may now begin. Here’s Lindsey Stirling’s interpretation of “What child is this?”…
Happy Christmas!

Deep theological questions today…
Although you wouldn’t guess it from looking around, it’s not yet Christmas.
In fact, although we’ve been bombarded with Christmas stuff since the day after Thanksgiving, the Christmas season doesn’t begin for quite some time. However, since today we enter Advent, it’s now time to bring out the Advent (not Christmas!) music! Here’s my favourite Advent hymn, “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”:
So, what’s your favourite Advent song?