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8:45 a.m. — I am sitting in the car, in our neighbors’ driveway.  Our oldest is taking care of their dog while they’re gone for Thanksgiving, and since it was raining this morning I drove her down instead of making her walk.  (Because I’m so nice.)  Anyway, while she’s inside taking care of the dog, [...]

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Don’t you love that old song by the Zombies?  But that’s not what I’m talking about.
It’s the changing of the season that is right in front of us.
Not fall to winter.
Not fall to “holiday season.”
Not fall to “Christmas shopping season” or “holiday shopping season” or any kind of “shopping season.”  Why would we want any [...]

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Trick-or-Treating has died down now at the house.  Actually, the doorbell just rang as I was typing that first sentence, but it’s after 8:30 p.m., we have unplugged the orange Halloween lights on the porch, turned off the porch light and the other lights on the front of the house, thus signalling that the candy [...]

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. . . two days ago.  I forgot to wish you all a happy Jackie Washington Day!  We did not have any salmon in the house, so we could not make salmon patties, but we did put some peppermint sticks into some dill pickles and suck on them all day.  And of course we had [...]

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See this post from 2006.

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Christos anesti! Alithos anesti!
(”Christ is risen!” “He is risen indeed!”)
Or as we say in our Easter Acclamation these Great 50 Days of Easter:
Alleluia, Christ is risen!
The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia!
The Day of Resurrection
We sang this hymn yesterday. It was written by St. John of Damascus (c. 676 – c. 754).
(A literal translation from [...]

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I love Palm Sunday.? I brought some of the palms home the other day (they arrived Tuesday and are in the fridge at the church) so the girls could make palm crosses, which they love to do.? Our oldest has been making palm crosses since she was four, so she’s really good at it by [...]

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I’m back after a long absence. I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas.
Yes. Present tense. Are having. Not “had”. Today is the Eleventh Day of Christmas. Tomorrow is the Twelfth Day of Christmas. Sunday will be Epiphany (when we commemorate the arrival of the Magi or Wise [...]

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Today at breakfast, my children were asking me what I thought was the worst TV Christmas Special ever. One of them voted for the one where Angela Lansbury is a nun and there’s a little blind shepherd boy who wants snow on Christmas or something like that. Our oldest voted for “The Year [...]

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You need to see this.
You can also follow the links to previous bad nativities and other goodies.
HT to Andy.

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