Dec. 6 honors saint important to Christmas
Christmas sometimes seems to be the American national holiday. Even as the economy seems to be improving, stores are counting on “the Christmas spirit” to keep them solvent for another year.
Free performances celebrate Easter
Despite all commercial evidence to the contrary, Easter, not Christmas, is the most important holiday in Christianity. Since the Middle Ages, Christians have observed this important time with Passion plays, dramatic presentations of the final events in the life of Jesus of Nazareth: his trial and execution at the hands of the Roman authorities and his resurrection from the dead.
