BLEST WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL GIFT!
Feast of the Holy Child (Santo Nino) January 20, 2013 Readings: Is 9:1-6 / Eph 1:3-6.15-18 / Luke 2:41-52 BLEST WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL GIFT! It’s more fun in the Philippines! That, at least, is what our tourism people would like the world to believe. Why not? Where else do you find Christmas beginning in earnest in September and ending some time in mid January, with a little of Passion week sandwiched in between with the feast of the Black Nazarene? But I am being flippant here. It’s not just about fun. It’s all about being “blest with every spiritual gift!” And I am dead serious about it! Family psychologists in the Philippines have always been puzzled by this. Most mothers and fathers of fledgling families in the country are working and living elsewhere, far from their young, growing children, far from home that is more than just home, far from all that they grew familiar with. Darkness, you might say? Indeed! The dark...