So since it's Christmas Season now, please share your favorite Christmas Carols in this thread. God Bless.
Thanksgiving day in the USA was the earliest it can be this year! It does feel like I have an extra week to prepare for Christmas!
My youngest son used to sing this constantly and drive his older brothers crazy. He wanted to know all about "Herald"-- he thought it was a person.
That was my father's favorite Christmas hymn. He recorded it on his tape recorder ( old fashioned one back in the 1950's) about ten versions of it. It still thrills me when the Carol bursts out with "Fall on your knees...."
Pavarotti brings back many memories of Christmas's gone by when my husband RIP used to fill the house with the sound of song all over Christmas.
I booked four plane tickets online today, cyber Monday and was so pleased that I had done it well. Half an hour later I got a phone call that I would have to change the dates at some expense. Having already woke up this morning with a terrible migraine and having a big headache put me in a bad mood and made me impatient. Then I remembered what Joseph and Mary went through at Bethlehem. They had to trek all the way from Nazareth to Bethlehem with Mary heavily pregnant. Then no room at the inn. Then fleeing to Egypt from armed soldiers and a crazy King who wanted to kill the new born Jesus. Now these were things to get really, really impatient about. But they'd didn't loose it. Why? They saw and accepted God's Will in it all. As must we all. Thinking of all this cheered me up and calmed down considerably. My very first Christmas grace.
I was working on the homily for the First Sunday of Advent and heard we might have our first significant snow of winter, tonight. We have had a couple early morning flurries ( an inch or so) that melt off by the afternoon, but it looks like we're to get a fair amount by noon tomorrow. So I went and filled up a couple of 2-gallon jugs with gas for the snowblower and by the time I got home the steady snow had begun. We will get 8-10, but of course the Tug Hill just east of us is scheduled for a foot-and-a-half. Winter has returned to welcome in Frosty. This coming Sunday's Psalm response: May we truly make it our prayer: R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
A cute story to weave into a homily someday! After Holy Mass for last Sunday was completed at Christ Our Light Parish, I was taking off my alb and one of the boys (about 8 years old) came up and asked me, "Hey Deacon, who is that?", pointing to a saint's statue in the back of Church. So we walked over and I said, "She is St. Frances Cabrini. She and her nuns came over to America in the 1800s to help care for, feed and teach the Faith to poor Italian immigrants." Then the boy asked, "But what do the words of her book say (Omnias Possim en eo Ovime con for tat). I knew it was probably Latin, but I did not know. So I told him that I would let him know next Sunday and went home and looked it up. The answer: I can do all things in him who strengthens me! (Philippians 4:13). Time to gather some kids and have a contest!
I just prayed that Bible verse a couple hours ago as I walked down my very long driveway in the pitch black country night to throw something in the trash by the curb. There was some coyote howling going on, which left me a bit nervous!
