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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, December 12 ( CNA/EWTN News ) Five centuries ago, St. Juan Diego was the first believer to meet the Virgin Mary under the title and appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Today, millions continue to encounter and embrace her motherly presence, especially on her feast day of Dec. 12. In 1999, three years before Pope John Paul II canonized St. Juan Diego, he summed up the significance of the Virgin of Guadalupe for Catholics throughout the Americas, describing her as the "mother and evangelizer of America." The Pope also noted that "in the next millennium … (North and South) America will be the continent with the largest number of Catholics." Just as other Catholics might describe their faith as having a "Franciscan" or "Dominican" emphasis, some Catholics deeply identify with a "Guadalupan" Catholicism. That sensibility tends to emphasize the Virgin Mary's maternal care for all peoples, her identification with...

Denver, Colo., Dec 10, 2010 ( EWTN News ) A new study finds that the majority of the United States celebrates December 25 as a religious event. Rasmussen Reports released a study on December 9 which claims that a whopping 92 percent of Americans celebrate Christmas, and of that percentage, 65 percent regard it as a religious holiday. Those who attend church at least once a week are also more inclined to celebrate Christmas religiously.

We all want Christmas to be a wonderful experience. Some of us want Christmas to be different from previous times of Christmases past and some of us want Christmas to be the same from previous times of Christmases past. Every Christmas is a celebration extraordinaire, not because of what is on the outside, but rather Who is in the inside. The heart that celebrates Christmas, the mind that celebrates Christmas, and the soul that celebrates Christmas is the true meaning of Love. This will be our Christmas present, His gift to us, to experience a Christmas the way Christ wants us to experience His Birth!  

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Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. Stained Glass Window Our Lady of Guadalupe Church Del Rio, Texas

This is the Advent season – anticipation. We wait for the Coming of Our Lord, we wait in joyful expectation. We wait with longing. We wait with yearning. Will we be disappointed on Christmas Day? Have we put too much thought into just one day? But is it really just one day, is it just one, ordinary day, a day like any other of the 365 days of the years? But it’s CHRISTMAS! Christmas is different, it is special, and it is a day like no other. All around, it is different. There are Christmas trees and lights and decorations and cheerfulness galore. If every day were Christmas, if every day could be Christmas, what a wonderful life it would be, a Christmas not just for a season, but Christmas for a lifetime. Why can’t it be Christmas every day? There is absolutely no reason why it can’t be Christmas every day! Let us resolve to life each and every day as if it were Christmas. What a most joyous life it would be for each and every one of us and for all those around us too!