Deal W. Hudson December 11, 2017 YouTube has become a treasure trove of musical delights, which I enjoy exploring especially at the season of Christmas. I offer the five best videos of live performances of Christmas music that I have found thus far. Live performances add a much-needed visual element to the performances of familiar… Continue reading The 5 Best YouTube Videos for Christmas
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Church and Culture – December 23, 2017 – Hour 1: Deal’s Christmas Special
Church and Culture: Deal Hudson – Hour 2 – Advent Music, December 23, 2017
Rev. Philip William DeVous: – Hour 2 – Rev. Philip William DeVous on Christmas Poetry and the Incarnation, December 17, 2016
Rev. Phillip De Vous: – Hour 2 – reads and comments on a variety of Advent and Christmas poems, December 26, 2015
Brother Mark Dohle: – Hour 1 – retreat master at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, gives spiritual advice to those who get the Christmas “blues.”, December 19, 2015
Bob Reilly: – Hour 1 – discusses 12 pieces of Christmas music that should be better known, December 12, 2015
Christmas is for Children
Published December 1, 1997 DEAL W. HUDSON I heard our president on the radio this morning, announcing, “We must make sure that parents are able to spend time with their children whenever they can.” If the “we” had been the American people, not the government, then the comment was merely an obvious truism. Apparently, though,… Continue reading Christmas is for Children
Alice Thomas Ellis: He Came Down from Heaven
Editor’s note: Here’s a Catholic writer worth discovering or rediscovering! Alice Thomas Ellis, who died 2002 at age 72, was the pen name of Anna Haycraft. I called her one day out of blue and asked her to write an article for Crisis Magazine and she very kindly sent the one below — it helped that I… Continue reading Alice Thomas Ellis: He Came Down from Heaven
Gain and Loss on Christmas Day
Deal W. Hudson “Heard Melodies Are Sweet, but Those Unheard Are Sweeter,” wrote John Keats in his famous “Ode to a Grecian Urn.” This explains the pleasure of memories, especially those of a Christmas nearly sixty years ago. My family lived in Prairie Village, a suburb of Kansas City, in a modest ranch style house. My father,… Continue reading Gain and Loss on Christmas Day
