I don’t know about you, but I love Christmas music. Check out this article at Zenit.org:

Putting Christ Back Into Christmas Carols
Interview With Director of Diocesan Initiative
by Karna Swanson

TRENTON, New Jersey, DEC. 14, 2009 (Zenit.org).- It is often said that to sing is to pray twice. A diocesan initiative in New Jersey this Advent is showing that singing — particularly Christmas carols — can also be a very effective tool for evangelization.

Christmas carols “contain the kernel of the Gospel message,” says John Boucher, the director of the Office of Evangelization and Parish Development for the Diocese of Trenton. “Singing them opens up hearts to the good news about Jesus, what he has done for us, and what he wants to do in our lives right here, right now.”

To this end, Boucher, along with his wife, Therese, created the Christmas Carol Festival (CCF), which aims to reintroduce faithful and non-practicing Catholics to the message of Christmas through singing traditional, relgious Christmas carols.

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