Remember: It's still Christmas. Unwrap the gift of holy silence this week...

The silence of which we sing so wistfully at Midnight Mass,
is at an all-time premium at Christmas; it is so difficult to find
a silent night, let alone sit within one and become immersed in it,
that the possibility of a seasonal soothing of the hearta quieting
of the grief of the worldseems the stuff of illusion and
myth.