Christmas is about the greatest gift of all

NEWS that the Irish League of Credit Unions has warned families against seasonal overspending (December 4) has a ring more familiar than the church bells at Christmas.

Commercialism has become the religion of our culture. Commercials no longer sell ‘things’. Instead, they peddle the philosophy that ‘things’ will make us happy.

As someone much more eloquent than I once put it: “We spend money we don’t have to buy things we don’t need to impress people we don’t like.”