It is time for us to renew Christmas. We all know the story, but do we, really?

18 years ago, the director of St. Thomas More's Gospel Choir, Henry Herrera, came to me with an idea for a Christmas program to be done just before Midnight Mass. He knew I was a writer and lector, so he proposed that we come up with an overall theme and a selection of Christmas carols. I would do a reflection leading into each song. He would pick the songs and give me the list. We would both work on a theme. Little did we know what The Holy Spirit was going to do with that "little" idea." Each year, He...