Even as sun sets and many have already moved into the liturgical day of the Holy Family, a meditation on the juxtaposition of Christmas with St. Stephen’s day:
Merry, indeed, is the notion that our deliverance is at hand; that the defeat of Death itself could ever have been accomplished. Happy, and blessed, must be that occasion, in no small way. Triumphant, necessarily, is that call: even in the cry of Stephen, whose Victory is at hand.
(source: The Day After – The Catholic Thing)