CHRISTMAS IS COMING and there are many things which we need to think about in this busy time of the year. We need to work hard at making certain that we don't push the celebration of the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh out of our lives in all our rushing about to buy gifts, our preparation for entertaining, getting the house decorated and prepared and all the other "important" things we do at Christmas time We don't want to see our spiritual lives diminished in our rush to satisfy material or temporal things. We must give praise to God in the Highest. We need to attend Christmas Eve Liturgy. We all want to do things out of a love of God, but often the press of preparation for Christmas causes us to stay at home to complete some task or to relax with the family after the hectic ordeal of preparations. We still love God, but we have mentally put that love aside for a time each time we miss Church. Even more importantly, we have given a seriously incorrect bit of teaching to our children and/or grandchildren when we essentially say to them that opening of gifts, the meal etc. are the important celebrations because this is where we have placed our priority by missing Church. We may not intend to teach this, however, young impressionable minds learn these lessons very easily by inference and our example. We could preach for years about going to Church, but a regular example by our own actions speaks far louder on one occasion than years of preaching. Let's "sing praises to our God" together in a full Church this Christmas. We all love God; let us teach that love to everyone in our families by our example.