For Your Weekend: The Promise of Hope and the Fullness of Joy

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 2:1–12

It was the first graders that stole the show this year at my children’s Christmas pageant. Dressed in their Catholic school uniform best, they stood in front of the altar and, in all their glory, sang their little hearts out. But it was their belting out of the refrain of the song that sealed it for the audience, that made all of us, even those who did not have first graders this year, giggle aloud and smile with effusive joy. 

“OHHH. OHHHHHHH...