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Sunday, January 6, 2019Mosaic TV on 'The Riches of Christmas'
5:30 a.m. + KPIX television Channel 5, CBS Bay Area
Sunday, January 6
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Have you noticed that the pre-Christmas shopping season gets longer but Christmas gets shorter? Christmas is accorded an Eve (the 24th) and a Day (the 25th), but after that...? Isn't it time to take down the tree and plan a New Year’s party? No. But it may be time to relearn why our holidays are truly holy days.
In the Catholic Church, Christmas Day is just the beginning of Christmastide. The profound mystery of the Incarnation, celebrated that day, opens the way into a wondrous calvacade of stories both human and divine, earthly and heavenly. We see unique events, meet unforgettable characters, and experience a season full of love, awe, danger, excitement, revelation, and holiness.
On this show, "The Riches of Christmas," Laura Bertone, Director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, joins us to unwrap some of the forgotten or neglected treasures and tales of the sacred season when God became man. This show aired originally on December 23, 2018."God all-bounteous, all-creative,
Whom no ills from good dissuade,
Is incarnate, and a native
Of the very world He made."
[Christopher Smart, Poem on Christmas, 1755]
The Christmas Season
Tuesday, December 25 – THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD
Wednesday, December 26 – Feast of St. Stephen
Thursday, December 27 – Feast of St. John
Friday, December 28 – Feast of The Holy Innocents
Sunday, December 30 – THE HOLY FAMILY: JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH
Tuesday, January 1 – MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD
Wednesday, January 2 – Memorial of St Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Doctors of the Church
Thursday, January 3 – Christmas Weekday (The Most Holy Name of Jesus)
Friday, January 4 – Memorial of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Saturday, January 5 – Memorial of St. John Neumann
Sunday, January 6 – EPIPHANY
Sunday, January 13 – THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD
