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On an academic level I know that the first two thirds of the Advent season is a time of preparation for the Last Coming of Christ and a meditation of our mortality in preparation for our physical Death. I am likewise aware that I probably need more penance and spiritual renewal than most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I took a course on the Liturgical Year with the great Robert Taft, SJ many years ago he gave an example of a classic misunderstanding the theology of liturgy in the in the very course description pointing out that\u00a0\u00a0\u201can extraterrestrial student of our cultural history parachuting into the USA in order to study the meaning of Advent today would be forced, without the help of history, to conclude that its meaning is to be located in Christmas shopping.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can even agree on a conceptual level with my friend D. Vincent Twomey who caused a furore in the Irish media landscape when he stated<\/a> that \u201csinging Christmas hymns before Christmas . . . is absurd\u201d and proposed that Irish radio should not broadcast any Christmas carols before December 17. Yet Christmas carols are probably my favorite musical genre. One of my guilty pleasures is not skipping the track on my playlist when I am driving by myself during the summer and a Christmas carol appears on my My-Top-Rated<\/em> playlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet when I come across news stories such as\u00a0The 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree begins its journey to New York City<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0I feel an urge to start putting out my own decorations.\u00a0I was on vacation visiting friends in Miami last week and I made sure to pre-order a few pounds of Christmas M&Ms on Amazon and bring them back to put in a big bowl in my mother\u2019s house for the benefit of my nephews and nieces. And being the unreformed shopaholic that I am, I had to pay for an extra bag on my flight back to Dublin to contain all of the Christmas clutter that I had purchased.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To sum up, I can\u2019t see a commemoration and celebration of the Incarnation and the Birth of Christ being bad, even in early November.\u00a0\u00a0But liturgically this flies in the face of over a millennium of Christian tradition. Yet I know that I am far from alone in this quandary and I imagine that almost all of our readers engage in some aspect of Christmas shopping or festivities before December 17.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder if any of our readers have any suggestions or additional insight for this situation, in particular given that Pray Tell now happily allows for reader comments again?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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