Every Night Can Be Christmas Night

a brief meditation for those attending Midnight Mass

Liturgically, Christmas, like Easter—and unlike Epiphany, Pentecost, and Ascension—is celebrated at night. And nighttime, of course, is both scary and wondrous—for kids, especially, but also for those of us who haven’t yet completely lost touch with our youth. For Christians, every night is charged with the promise of what happened on that one night—the…