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Don’t Ever Doubt That We Have Herods Among Us
As a writer, I’m always very keenly aware of people’s stories and I am always on the lookout for blogging material. This past Friday, my best friend invited me to an Advent Tea which was a much-needed time of reflection. A priest, Fr. Bullock, gave a wonderful reflection and as I soaked up his words,…
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Oh, Advent, What Do You Want With Me?
Fulton Sheen once wrote, “If you are ever to have a good time, you cannot plan your life to include nothing but good times.” Not in the too distant past, life was physically more demanding. You had to grow your own food, spend every waking minute preparing to survive the winter, and build or make…
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The Year I Saw Santa Claus and the Thrill of the Season
When I was a kid, Christmas Eve was a magical night. Some of my dearest memories are from those special evenings with my family. Everyone would show up at my grandparent’s house before dinner was ready. The house always smelled like heaven–baking food, pine, and candles. My grandmother always had the house beautifully decorated and…
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Advent Prepares Us For The Joy Of Christmas
When I was young, my grandmother would always invite two of my cousins and me to her house right after Thanksgiving to help her decorate for Christmas. We’d go for the whole weekend and we would be busy little elves the entire time making the house beautiful. The first chore was always to dust and…
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An Advent Tradition: Presents for Christ
So last year for Advent, I read about a neat idea to help the family focus more on Jesus during the Christmas season. Â Each person in your family gets a strip of paper and each day you write down a good deed you did for your fellow man. Â At the end of the day, the…