The Mass of Christ. Christmas.
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| O Holy Night! |
Spending time with our extended families and friends before Christmas ~ the appetizer.
Spending time with our extended families and friends after Christmas ~ the dessert.
The main course
~ assisting and worshiping at midnight Mass and Christmas morning Mass
(with a few hours of sleep in between) offers pure satisfaction to our
hungry hearts.
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| Weston, Peter, Violet, Joseph, Sawyer and Zachary: a complete set of cousins on Tim's side |
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| Nearly the complete set of cousins; plus a few spouses and our little (and grown) ones on Bridget's side |
The heart-breaker: digesting the reality that so many baptized Christians will not choose to worship God in His Church on this holy day, nor faithfully on Sundays, nor on any day. With lives so full and so blessed, they lack the desire ~ or the will ~ to physically and habitually return to God's house to give Him praise, thanks and glory. The call God Himself placed upon their hearts has been somehow muted or crowded out in the noisiness and business of life. Yet He waits patiently for
each one of us to return to Him. Our Returning King offers His
endless mercy as a perpetual Christmas gift, free of charge to anyone who simply, humbly asks.
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| Rocky at Christmas |
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