Thank you for writing this. At Mass this morning, I thought how divorce and dying changes Christmas for generations: you go from “being with family all the time’’ to this sort of segregation: times when certain parts of the family are together and the rest aren’t so there are either many or few or none. Depending on the time. For five years, my mother in law was here in her final years so we actually had to take turns on who could go to church when because someone had to be with her. We went to Christmas morning Mass today (first time in YEARS) because we used to have the kids for Christmas Eve and/or Midnight Mass but not Christmas morning but now they do their own things Christmas morning and we are alone till they come Christmas evening for dinner so we decided to go to Church in the morning (one time when we don’t have to be alone but can be part of something bigger than ourselves). Merry Christmas! Thank you for writing.