Christmas Stories
A collection of stories centered on Christmas and reflections on the human condition, generosity, and redemption. Among the best-known tales are A Christmas Carol, which narrates the transformation of the...
Christmas
Admirabile Signum
Admirabile Signum: On the meaning and importance of the Nativity Scene.
Published on December 1, 2019, Admirabile Signum is an apostolic letter from Pope Francis on the meaning and...
God's Nativity Scene
The author goes through the different scenes of the Gospel surrounding the Birth of Jesus, using the imagination to "fill in", from the perspective of different characters (a laundress, the donkey, the star...
Joy to the world
The author analyzes and comments on the different scenes from the Gospel surrounding the Nativity and the Epiphany. For example, different chapters are dedicated to Our Lady, Saint Joseph, the Genealogy of...
Destination: Bethlehem. A Family Advent
A book of family catechesis that presents Advent devotions in a new way: imagine an 11-year-old boy named Isaac, close to the family of Zechariah and Elizabeth in Ain-Karim, who participates in the events...
The Christmas Box
A young American couple, Richard and Kery, with a four-year-old daughter Jenna, forced by financial difficulties, respond to an advertisement by an elderly lady, Mary, offering to host a family in exchange...
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Narration of Christmas theme that evokes childhood memories of family celebrations between big snowfalls, extraordinary meals, and gifts more useful than satisfactory. Dylan Thomas expresses, in terms very...
A Christmas Carol
This wonderful short story introduces us to the old, miserly Scrooge who is more interested in his money-lending and counting the pennies than he is in bothering to celebrate Christmas. Indeed, he revels in...
Letters from Father Christmas
Tolkien in his purest form. Delicious book that gathers the letters and drawings he wrote to his children from 1920 to 1943, capturing the personality of St. Nicholas. The letters are closely related to the...
The Blessing of Christmas
This small book contains the meditations written by Benedict XVI during his time as Archbishop of Munich. The texts were written as sermons, press articles or radio interventions for a wide public. In the...