Christmas Continues!

Posted December 28, 2010, 11:12 a.m.

In the United States (and likely elsewhere), we do Christmas backwards. We have our parties, celebrations, and decorations up during the penitential season of Advent—which is supposed to be a prayerful season of anticipation and penance. Then, on the eve of December 24 or the morning of December 25, we open our presents, have a nice meal with our families, and go back to life as usual. On December 26, for most people, Christmas is basically over.

But Christmas continues! The celebration of the birth of Christ in the Christian liturgy begins on the evening of December 24 and continues until the eve of the Epiphany on January 5. This is why the songs speak of there being twelve days of Christmas; there are twelve days of Christmas! During this time we continue to meditate on Christ’s birth as a babe in a manger and his early life, including the visit of the wise men from the east. This is when we should be having our parties. Now the Savior is born. Now our anticipation is over. Now we celebrate.

I want to thank everybody for all the wonderful gifts and well-wishes Melissa and I have received at this festive time of year. I hope you all had a blessed Christmas day, and I hope you have a blessed remainder of the Christmas season as well.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

Although it has been said that every generation grows wiser and wiser, yet we have no reason to think they grow better and better.

The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane.

I’ve never been tempted to take any of my companies public. Making choices is a lot easier when you have to answer only to yourself.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

A culture that engendered the spiritual creations of Mozart and Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, of Raphael and Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt does not need lessons in spirituality from societies whose vision of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel stocked with virgins for men’s pleasure.

Most laypersons are unaware that according to the classical laws of relativity and cosmology, there should be no solid matter in the entire universe. We and the Earth on which we rest and every star and galaxy in the universe are the result of an unlikely quirk of nature.

For he will render to every man according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. . . .

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

No one can demand that religion should be relegated to the inner sanctum of personal life, without influence on societal and national life, without concern for the soundness of civil institutions, without a right to offer an opinion on events affecting society.

If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well.

So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor.

Totalitarian regimes tend to emphasize state education, because they know that indoctrinating the children protects their positions of power.

In making any assertion, we must be guided by the nature of things, except in those things which are above nature, and are made known to us by Divine authority.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

I despise the public. That’s my only vindication.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. That’s true for companies, and it’s true for products.

[Man] can survive in only one of two ways—by the independent work of his own mind or as a parasite fed by the minds of others. The creator originates. The parasite borrows.

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