"The Mass of Christ"

May God bless all those I love this Christmas day. Including those who don't believe in Him.

Vincent Nicholls

A man shouldn't be seething with rage at his own religious leaders on Christmas day. However, the best thing I can say of Archbishop Nichols is that he is the worst head of the Catholic Church in England since Cranmer. And he doesn't even have his writing skills.

Just to feel better - and to remind myself what it is actually about...

Johann Sebastian Bach's fighting Christmas song (closing chorus of the Christmas Oratorio):

Now stand you well avenged
O'er the brood of your foes,
For Christ hath wholly broken
What against you once was,
Death, Devil, Sin and Hell
Are wholly and truly done;
By God holds now its place,
The ransomed race of Man!