Christmas Story : Little Star

Watch the above video clip to see Pat Boone reading Anthony DeStefano’s classic children’s Christmas book Little Star to a group of curious children. This video clip has the full story explained with timely snapshots from the book itself. Your kids will love this video a lot on this Christmas eve.

Little Star is a Christmas story for young children. This Christmas gift is beautifully illustrated by Mark Elliot. The storyline of Little Star is amazing. The focus of Little Star is the birth of Jesus. Without giving away the story, Little Star gives his best to recognize the birth of the little king who was born in the most humble circumstances.

Many children may not get the real idea why the great Lord chose to be born so humbly in the manger at Bethlehem. They may find it difficult to conceive, just like all the other stars in the book. But as we read the book, we come to know what made our God, our king to choose such a humble birth. To show the world that He came to this world for all humanity, for the rich and the poor alike, to show his immense love for all.

Children will get this great idea as they go through the emotions of the Little Star in the story. The story gets really interesting in the end as we read what did the little star do on the Christmas night when Jesus was born and what made the little star remembered in all the following Christmas nights after that.

Every Christmas we place a star above our Christmas tree to remember this little star and what He had done for baby Jesus and remind us about the great Christmas message – God’s immense love for mankind.

This book is a great read for young children. Highly recommended for kids this Christmas.

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Christmas Wallpapers HD pictures of 1920×1200 resolution.

Take a look at the 20 Wallpaper sized images of very high resolution (1920×1200) which must be the most ideal ones to be set as your desktop wallpaper in this Christmas season. Click on the above thumbnails to see the image in its full size.

Christmas 2010 is just one month away. I hope all of you have started your preparations for this Christmas 2010, both mentally and physically. I hope all of you are really ready to receive the infant Jesus in your hearts. Make the place neat and tidy for Jesus to be born in your hearts, in this Christmas season.

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Complete E-book on Purgatory. Take a look at this PDF given for free download here.

Read Me or Rue It – How To Avoid Purgatory written by Fr. Paul O’Sullivan

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Chapters in this PDF on Purgatory

Although a small e-book, it is destined to do great good among Christians, many of whom are incredibly ignorant of the great doctrine of Purgatory. As a consequence, they do little or nothing to avoid it themselves and little to help the Poor Souls who are suffering there so intensely, waiting for the Masses and prayers which should be offered for them.

Help, Help, They Suffer So Much

I. We can never understand too clearly that every alms, small or great, which we give to the poor we give to God. He accepts it and rewards it as given to Himself. Therefore, all we do for the Holy Souls, God accepts as done to Himself. It is as if we had relieved or released Him from Purgatory. What a thought! How He will repay us!

II. As there is no hunger, no thirst, no poverty, no need, no pain, no suffering to compare with what the Souls in Purgatory endure, so there is no alms more deserving, none more pleasing to God, none more meritorious for us than the alms, the prayers, the Masses we give to the Holy Souls.

III. It is very possible that some of our own nearest and dearest ones are still suffering the excruciating pains of Purgatory and calling on us piteously for help and relief.

Is it not dreadful that we are so hardened as not to think more about them, that we are so cruel as to deliberately forget them! For the dear Christ’s sake, let us do all, but all, we can for them. Every Catholic ought to join the Association of the Holy Souls.

“Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me. ” (Job 19:21). This is the touching prayer that the Poor Souls in Purgatory address to their friends on Earth, begging, imploring their help, in accents of the deepest anguish. Alas, many are deaf to their prayers!

What is Purgatory?

It is a prison of fire in which nearly all [saved] souls are plunged after death and in which they suffer the intensest pain. Here is what the great Doctors of the Church tell us of Purgatory: So grievous is their suffering that one minute in this awful fire seems like a century.

St. Thomas Aquinas, the Prince of Theologians, says that the fire of Purgatory is equal in intensity to the fire of Hell, and that the slightest contact with it is more dreadful than all the possible sufferings of this Earth!

Read more in the attached pdf available from Download Now link.