Christmas is a time of great celebration and festivities. Th...

Christmas is a time of great celebration and festivities. The time after Christmas is often a phase of getting through with many cakes, sweets, food… The foodstuff prepared for the occasion often exceeds the required amount and thus, it needs a few more days to consume it fully…. Something similar also happens in the spiritual realm… For many people, the spiritual significance of an event like Christmas cannot be absorbed and completed in a day. It’s like trying to comprehend the grandeur of some magnificent places like… … the St. Peter’s Basilica at Vatican or the Taj Mahal in Agra or the Niagara Falls … or other greater and dazzling sites, in one walk-through. It’s not too easy. We have to return back to grasp greater the beauty and the splendour. So it is with the spectacular event of the Nativity.. We need more time to comprehend about the Christmas Night… … more time to understand the virgin birth … more time to realise that God came down to earth as a tender Babe for our salvation etc As a result, the Church gives us seven additional days to contemplate these divine mysteries. These extra days on the liturgical calendar, along with the feast day - eight in total - is called as The Christmas Octave. Love longs to be close to the Heart… >> Love drives every fear of the Cross. Love seeks to kiss the Heart… >> Love impels to embrace the Cross!