Happy Day After Christmas, everybody. Our lives have not been our own for the past couple of days, but should be slowing down a little bit now. We hope you had a great Christmas.
Krugman is worth reading today (almost always is).
I've been taking a lot of pictures in the past few days, and will share some here. First, a fresh snowfall makes everything look better -- for a while.
Below are Advent candles. Advent has four weeks. One candle is lit on the first Sunday of Advent, then it and an additional candle are lit each week, with the center candle lit on Christmas. What's supposed to happen is that by Christmas you have four candles of different heights; but the person lighting the candles one Sunday lit the wrong candle. It makes a nice picture, but it can't be used for anything, because people who would want a picture like that would recognize something is wrong.
There's a lot about the holiday services that's just cute. Like acolytes.
And once the lights go down, you understand why so many people like to come to midnight mass (which has been new and improved, now being at 10 p.m.).
One reason the past week has been so hectic is that Suellen creates the service leaflets for all the services. There are three Christmas services -- one for children at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve, the "midnight" service, and the actual Christmas Day service (which hardly anybody ever goes to, anymore). Each service is totally different, with different music, different readers, etc. So each bulletin is created from scratch, then photocopied. This year we got a new photocopier that folds and staples. Heaven.
5 comments:
glad to see the ribbons stayed on the pews. hope you guys had a merry christmas. please don't pry the garage door open to check our house. we feel guilty enough catching the last plane out of the blizzard as it is
well goodbye
Christine and gote:
We hope everything is going well in Maryland. We picked up three packages from your front porch this afternoon. One was labeled, "Perishable." It was a delicious cheese!
We miss you!
thanks bro
(whatever you find is yours, specially the grub)
Thank you so much, from the Christina side of the Eric/Christina dyad! We WANT you to eat it!
Dad is doing better, we hope he can fully recover in a while. Send prayers for him.
We love you.
That is great news! Those rehab folks are miracle workers.
Right back at you.
Thank you for the link to here! Your photos are lovely.....especially I like the first one of your church....very peaceful.
People who do behind-the-scenes work like typing up and copying the service folders certainly have my admiration, and especially around the holiday.....as you indicate the extra services make the job more hectic.
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