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all about christmas but does not air until december 23rd . you may say, isn't that a little late? have christmas eve and christmas day and that is about it. you recycle the gift wrap, and take down the tree and plan another party. but christmas day is just the beginning of christmas, you heard the song of 12 days, there are 12 days and more than 12. they are popular by hams and others but the feast of jesus birth through january 13th come of the feast of his baptism we enter into a wondrous cavalcade of stories and we meet unique events and characters , it is time full of love, danger, excitement, revelation, poetry and holiness. our guest today is laura from the archdiocese of san francisco, and after this

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good morning, and welcome to mosaic. i want to introduce our guest, this is laura. we know each other, you work for the archdiocese of san francisco, you are the director

of worship read and i think you would be called a liturgist. and you are also, a and amateur theologian, sort of a historian. very well versed in things catholic. the archdiocese depends on you to make sure our ceremonies are proper, correct and right. so we're talking today about christmas. i think we want to, you've created a little slideshow for us. our point here today is that christmas is full of riches. and if you are willing to slow down and see the season for what it is you enter into oh wonderful set of stories that really have no end. so how shall we start this ? >> i think you talked about it earlier, christmas is not just one day and it is not just those 12 annoying sounds from that song. i get a little tired of it. but it doesn't

start 12 days before christmas, christmas is the first day and go for 12 days. nothing makes me sadder than driving on the 26th and i see dead christmas trees. it's like oh, they are done, finished. and i think no, christmas keeps going. in the catholic church, other than easter, christmas is the one season where we have an octave. we think that christmas day is so important that we don't just celebrate it for one day emma we celebrate for eight days. and we have a great feast and say we will make a party out of it. within that time we have some feasts and we celebrate the holy family and mary, mother of god where they have further feasts until the baptism of the lord. that is christmas, that entire season. >> can we put up these slides , take us through the details. we

have slides that take us from december 25th through the 13th. so quickly, go through these things. >> the first active is that activity of the lord and immediately following is the feast of st. stephen. then them feast of st. john who we believe wrote the book of john and several other books. the feast of the holy innocents, not the most updated story but an important one. we have a date without a special moniker, just the fifth day. then that sunday we celebrate the holy family of jesus. jesus, mary and joseph. and monday becomes a down day within the octave and then we start our second week and we have the feast, january 1st, while everyone else is celebrating new year's day. then following is a few

more memorials. we have gregory the great, a wonderful doctor of the church. we have the memorial of two american saints, very important american saints and then epiphany on january 6 which falls on a sunday this year. it is wonderful that it falls on a sunday . >> the epiphany means showing forth ? >> the arrival of the spirit. and that in many places, in the east that is there christmas, much more important feast. the feast of the three kings and the arrival and all that. as you can see on the next week we have a week of christmas weekday masses but it culminates january 13 this year when we end the season with the baptism of the lord. >> and so, interesting, like the first chapter of any good

catholics life, you are born and a couple of weeks later you are baptized. you take it in order. but i'm curious, who did baptize jesus, do we know? >> john the baptist. the nativity stories, there are only two nativity stories in the gospel of matthew and luke, but the baptistery is in all four gospels. which is one of the reasons why they find it a very important feast and more authentic because that is where he begins his ministry and that is where we see the revelation of god. so it is a very important feast for us. so to say christmas is over, and this other stuff but baptism is a very important occasion. it's when you mark your life as a christian. >> let's take it one by one, you have a slide to show. >> january 25th we have the nativity of christ and then the feast of st. stephen . he was

a deacon and our first martyr. he died in about 35, so the time of christ. and he died in jerusalem and preach the gospel of christ. they said you have to back off and he said, i'm not going to. you can kill me but i won't let go. >> it is interesting to me that the first day after jesus birth is the first death on his behalf. a grim start to a religion. >> and it doesn't get any nicer . the following day is the feast of the holy innocents. >> let's take a look at that slide. >> the feast of st. john. so john the evangelist is shown as an eagle in many depictions, mainly because he is the most spiritual of the gospels, very

50,000 foot level of the gospel. >> and he was one of the disciples. we credit the disciples, too. >> some say he is the disciple whom jesus loved. he was contemporary with jesus. >> so, let's take a little break, the next when we look at and we come back will be the feast of holy innocents. a kind of dramatic and tragic that we will talk about.

welcome back to mosaic. we are here with laura, the director of the office of

worship for the archdiocese of san francisco . how many years have you been doing this job? >> this will be my seventh year . >> what is the training and expertise? >> i have a degree of liturgy from the university of notre dame and most people in my role have a masters or doctorate in liturgy. it is just someone who has a passion for liturgy and how the church praise. you have to have a little bit of knowledge of how ceremonies work and how to put things together, almost like a producer on a show. >> if some of the viewers have been to the cathedral in san francisco and see some of the beautiful liturgies, you are the manager of those things. >> when my friends ask me i say, it's kind of like being a wedding coordinator. doing everything from the flowers

and choosing the readings and music and making sure people are in the right place at the right time. >> it is beautiful, ornate and complex. >> if i've done it right, yes . >> now we're talking about christmas and moving slowly to the feast days and we are on to the feast of the holy innocents. >> again, not the most upbeat feast in the world . it is the story from luke where the parent who had heard there was a new king had been born try to get the wiseman to tell him where the where. and they said the best way to get rid of the king was to kill any male child under two. so any boy child was killed and it is very similar to the story of moses because luke was echoing that story. so these were our very first martyrs. the first people to die unwillingly.

they were not saying, this is my faith and i'm going to die for it. they were completely innocent yet suffered because of one man's jealousy and anger. and at this time it is kind of a downer a few days after christmas but in our world we have a lot of innocents that are slain. we have a lot of children that don't have what they need. it is a time for the church to reflect and pray on that. >> and the palestinian context, the canaanites had their gods and others and child sacrifice was part of the pagan religions that proceeded. the children do seem to get it in the neck, and it is unfortunate. a tyrant seeking to eliminate a rival. any competition. then the three kings , they get there feast later, right ?

>> you keep saying the three kings, but i have to correct you. we always say three kings but there was no evidence of how many kings there were. we had three gifts, he will always said that there were three but i like to say the wiseman. >> the wiseman from the east. astrologers, astronomers. gentiles. of great learning. >> they were the first gentiles along with matthews gospel we have the shepherds and those people coming to see them and the first to acknowledge the christ but these are gentiles who come forward and seek the son of god. >> and we will get to there feast in the first week of january. and what happens now, that 28 . >> on january 1st when everybody else is celebrating new year's day we celebrate the feast of mary, the mother of god. we used to celebrate the feast of circumcision but now we focus more on mary and the fact that she said yes to

having jesus and the fact that she was his main nurturer for his growing up years. we don't know much about his early life. in the catholic church also use it as the day of prayer for peace and world peace. >> this feast of mary is a global holy day of obligation? >> yes, catholics are required to attend mass on that day, that is a day where is separate from sunday and it is an important day and you should spend at least an hour in prayer, and the readings are all about mary and the people on that day. there are only seven or eight throughout the year but they are just highlighted as extra special days. >> they are clustered here . christmas, the 25th is the holy

day of obligation and the nearby sunday is also and then january 1st. exactly a week later. this sort of enriches your life as a worshiper. >> hopefully, yes. >> mary, the mother of god , known as our mother, i take it. and what happens next ? >> january 2nd is the feast of st. basil the great. they were from the fourth century, doctors of the church are those who have special knowledge and have contributed to the formation of the church. there is not many of them. so the two have to share there feast together. but the two of them together have such a wonderful influence, especially in the east, a big thing for our orthodox brothers and sisters. northern africa and antioch. >> and they were both men,

but there are doctors of the church that are female, right? scholars, holy people who have contributed to the literature of the church and theology and understanding of the church. >> basil the great . >> was he a pope? >> no, just bishop. >> let's take a pause, take a brief break, and we will come back and learn more about the riches of christmas.

welcome back to mosaic, apparently we've also gone to bethlehem. >> this is what we would see in italy. each of my brothers and sisters and i have a full set. you've seen them in churches. it was made popular of st. francis of assisi. he saw it back in jerusalem and brought it to europe. it became very popular. initially they were very popular to be live and now we have the little figurines that are a little

more rational. i have an entire set with sheep and goats in the wiseman and everyone else. this little one you're looking at now is made by corn husks as was given to me by a friend. it is kind of a traveling set. you can see the three kings there with mary, jesus and joseph. and this is a commemoration of what we are really celebrating. i occasionally put up a christmas tree, sometimes i do and sometimes i don't but i always put this up . this is from northern italy. and it was a gift from my grandmother. there are a lot of, pagan or not, the star on top reminds us of bethlehem but it is more a commercial thing. but every church has this kind of scene, somewhere. >> take us again through our little trip through the christmas octave.

>> this year we are celebrating between sunday, the feast of the holy family and the following , excuse me, the epiphany and then the holy family. we have two saints that are american . the reason for saints day, it shows the day they died. there is no coincidence here, they just happen to have died. the first is st. elizabeth ann seton. she was a fascinating woman from the early 1800s, had five children raised episcopalian, quite wealthy, her husband was ill and eventually went bankrupt. she lost several of her children. during that time in italy she found catholicism and was helped by some sisters , came back to the united states and found a vincentian order and they are mainly a teaching and hospital order. people in the bay area would

know seton hospital, it was named after her. >> that was her married name . and she died on january 4th and was canonized at some point. >> 1975. quite a while. >> the canonization process is lengthy. >> it can be, but it can also be very short. st. paul and mother teresa are were quite short and certainly in our modern age things get rushed a bit. >> then what happens on the next day? >> on the fifth we have another american , he was a bohemian, john newman, bishop of philadelphia. some people think of cardinal newman, but a different newman. and he was very good at catechisms, he wrote to in german. and he died in the late 1800s and he

was a very holy man . >> was he a missionary who came here? >> he was a man who was called to the priesthood and went to his own ship and said we have too many priests. so he kept writing to people and he kept being turned down. so we actually had to come all the way to america before someone would accept him. >> so ordained here in mission territory. >> in the 1800s, still mission territory . >> i presume our problem wasn't too many priests, we had to have circuit writing priests. >> he would have served a great deal of the dramatic community . philadelphia being on the east coast , that would make sense. and he has homilies.

>> so january 5th. that is the last slide and then january 6 is the feast of the epiphany. i learned somewhere, that the tradition is that you take down your christmas tree that day and you have a party and you burn your christmas tree. >> that is a nice one. there is a lot of traditions. >> we cut up the tree, burned it outside and had a marshmallow roast. >> the idea of gift giving is from the three kings and it is a celebration of the awakening of realizing who christ is. some people with the emphasis on the three creating kings but it's only on one scripture. but others did on the idea of christ with us. there are so many traditions. especially in europe and the east. i told you i am a time, we have the tradition of the good which

one january 6 leaves, hopefully candy in your shoes, so kind of like stockings . i think there is a little overlap there with stockings and santa claus. but many people give gifts on the 12th night. you would have a 12th night party because it's the end of the rebels of the christmas season. >> we have about a minute left. i'd like you to sum up what you'd like people to take away from christmas. >> i'd say enjoy december 25th and if you want to sing happy birthday, that is fine. it is the nativity of the lord. but, first of all the season goes for a lot longer because it is so important and we love celebrating it. the most important thing is that as the scriptures say, god so loved the world that he sent his only son, we celebrate the nativity but we celebrate the incarnation of christ and that is a celebration we ought to have for several days. it's a celebration we have through his family, his mother, or the innocent people that were

slain. i say, say merry christmas to someone every day for those 12 days and even if you want to keep going until the 19th when we have the baptism of the lord. does that is truly the christmas season. >> thank you for being here with us and thank you for what you mosaic and enjoy your christmas.

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