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Fourth Day of Christmas
Greetings!
Today is the Fourth Day of Christmas. According to Wikipedia, it is also Childermas or the Feast of the Innocents. The article I linked to says it is in commemoration of the Massacre of the Innocents which was when Herod killed all the boy children two years and under in Bethlehem after the Magi told [...]
The Third Day of Christmas
Today is the Third Day of Christmas. It is also the Feast of St. Stephen or St. Stephen’s Day according to the Eastern Church. But the Western Church celebrates it on December 26, which was yesterday. However, yesterday I was blogging about Boxing Day, which is a holiday that people I know celebrate. I don’t [...]
Fourth Sunday in Advent–Love
Today is the fourth and last Sunday of Advent. Christmas is almost upon us. For four weeks we have waited for this day. We started out with Hope. We started out remembering our sins and our need for a Savior and the prophecies to the People of God telling them that God would send them [...]
Third Sunday in Advent–Joy
This is the third week of Advent. This Sunday is sometimes also called Gaudete Sunday because the first word of the latin liturgy is gaudete, which is translated: Rejoice. The theme of this Sunday is joy, and instead of a purple candle, the pink candle is lit. This Sunday marks a change in mood from the [...]
Second Sunday in Advent–Peace
Advent continues. Today is the second Sunday of Advent and the start of the second week of Advent. We continue to look forward to Jesus’ coming–both in anticipating Christmas and in anticipating his coming again. For celebrating Jesus’ Advent must needs include both a looking back and a looking forward–it must include more than one [...]
First Sunday in Advent–Hope
Today is the first Sunday of Advent. It’s hard to believe that the Christmas season is here already. But Thanksgiving is over, and that means Christmas is right around the corner.
I’ve been reading up on Advent over the last few days. None of the churches I attended growing up celebrated Advent, so I wasn’t exposed [...]
Happy Mother’s Day, Bahrain!
March 21 is Mother’s Day here in the Middle East. I didn’t know that until I went to church tonight. At the end of the service they had the kids come down from the children’s room and sing a song for the adults. And of course they were cute, and all the proud parents snapped [...]