It is Christmas Morning, and the readings today are much longer than usual. For two reasons. I have a little more time, and this is one of the great and holy days for those who keep times and seasons -- which is all Christendom apart from the…
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It is Christmas Morning, and the readings today are much longer than usual. For two reasons. I have a little more time, and this is one of the great and holy days for those who keep times and seasons -- which is all Christendom apart from the…
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It appears that the commercial version of advent has started. The Christmas decorations are up in the malls. The daughter is annoying her best friend by singing Christmas songs. One of the cats, who have been banned from inside while the house is…
It is Christmas Day, 2015. The family will descend on my parents house in a half hour. In the antipodes the business and social year ended yesterday. Today is a respite: it is one of the two days in the year when all shops are closed.
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