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Festive Fireside Reading for Christmas, by Joseph Pearce – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, Dec. 24, 2025

Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of over thirty books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. His personal website is http://www.jpearce.co.

 

Christmas, for Christians, is primarily about our only true home, which is to be found in Heaven, the gates of which were opened by the coming of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

There’s no place like home for the holidays. So sang Perry Como in the popular Christmas hit of 1954, and so sings Perry Como and numerous other singers every year on countless “holiday” channels on the radio throughout the Advent season, right through until the advent of Christmas itself.

Home—for many people, Christmas is all about home and the love of home. This is true of Christians as well as non-Christians. The difference is that Christmas, for Christians, is primarily about our only true home, which is to be found in Heaven, the gates of which were opened by the coming of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But it’s about our earthly homes as well as our heavenly home, about our own families as well as the Holy Family. ….

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