Avoiding the Super Catholic Syndrome this Christmas

First Week of Advent, Sacred Heart Church, Honolulu

The following article by was written by Teresa Tomeo.

Those of us who are doing our best to try and follow the teachings of the Church know enough to not take our cues from secular society, especially in regards to what the world says is important at Christmas. We try not to get sucked into the culture of consumerism and commercialism and what has become society’s idea of the reason for the season; the emphasis on the material instead of the spiritual. Many of us have been there and done that in our former lives and had our own “V 8” moments so to speak.

Avoiding the Super Catholic Syndrome this Christmas