{"id":4218,"date":"2008-12-17T18:40:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2008-12-17T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T00:40:17","slug":"more-virgin-mary-less-virgin-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/more-virgin-mary-less-virgin-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"More Virgin Mary, less Virgin Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ll file this under the “Guilty as Charged” file.<\/p>\n

The Rev. James Martin<\/strong>, a Jesuit priest, says he objects to Christmas cards<\/a> featuring family photos.<\/p>\n

Look, I love family photos during the holidays. Plus, I actually read those annual holiday letters, all of which start with “What a busy year it’s been!” Seeing photos of my friends and their families and even enjoying a few sunny beach scenes when it’s cold and dark outside is a highlight of December.<\/p>\n

But I enjoy the photos more when they’re inside the card, not the card itself. Because more and more, even devout Christians have been replacing Jesus, Mary and Joseph with themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can I plead my case that we saved a lot more money by making our own cards and having them printed as pictures, rather than buying a Christmas card and including a family photo?<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Doesn’t it strike you as weird to set aside the Holy Family in favor of your family? Does a photo of Cabo San Lucas trump the story told by the original San Lucas? Is Christmas really about you?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ouch! It makes me really rethink how I’m celebrating Christmas this year — as I stuff a few more Christmas photos into envelopes.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full commentary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll file this under the “Guilty as Charged” file. The Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest, says he objects to Christmas cards featuring family photos. Look, I love family photos during the holidays. Plus, I actually read those annual holiday letters, all of which start with “What a busy year it’s been!” Seeing photos of … Continue reading More Virgin Mary, less Virgin Islands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,22,19,17],"tags":[1572,1648,1718,484,1719,1720],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-friends","category-reflections","category-take-action","tag-advent","tag-advent-conspiracy","tag-cards","tag-christmas","tag-holidays","tag-pictures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-162","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}