It is that time of year again when someone somewhere has to write an article lamenting the commercialisation of Christmas, though it has to be said that these type of articles have faced some competition of late from articles lamenting the campaign by the politically correct to abolish Christmas altogether. Poor old Christmas: attacked on one side by rabid secularism, and on the other by demented consumerism. Never stood a chance.
Those of us who like our Christmases to be strictly religious are really in for a tough time. Of course, if you loathe it altogether, you are really quite lucky, as you can go to one of the several countries that have in fact made Christmas celebrations illegal, such as Saudi Arabia or North Korea. If you want to have a purely religious celebration, one needs to make a different journey, an interior one, into one’s own soul, as well as into one’s parish church.
