Sunday, December 20, 2009

A symbol of the unknown

"Take the Mass out of Christmas.  That will leave only a symbol of the unknown."

     Ralph McInerny, "Sealed with an X," The Catholic Thing, 17 November 2009.  (Those who rail against the use of Xmas forget what the X- (and the -mas) meant as early as 1551 in English.)

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