Okay, grumpy, we're almost there! Advent is just three short weeks away and I for one have added Christmasy music to my blog to (hopefully) irritate those few misanthropes who are nostalgic for Ebeneezer Scrooge before his conversion.Yes, Christmas has been commercialized, subverted, perverted, homogenized, brutalized, demoralized and denatured by deviants who had what were once hidden agendas. But no more! We know those serpentine scoundrels all too well and their failed and futile attempts at removing Christ from Christmas . They can no longer operate freely without detection. Having said that, I'm celebrating Christmas starting RIGHT NOW, with or without you!
Why don't you start planning ways to celebrate the great Yuletide jamboree. Certainly Midnight-Mass on Christmas Eve and all those other little rituals we perform during Advent are a must. But also in ways you haven't celebrated before (no, I don't mean getting hammered).
Merry Early Christmas!!!
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You mean like, spending a day working at the food bank or a soup kitchen? Or maybe not buying gifts for every member of your family and sending money to Chalice instead so that someone in a third world country can buy the tools of a trade to make a living for his family? Or volunteering to spend a day visiting the sick at the hospital for children?
Certainly, Shirley. Those are all wonderful ways of celebrating a just about any liturgical holiday. I already volunteer at a local Catholic hospital every Saturday here in Vegas. I'll be writing more on that on a later post.
I'll be looking forward to that post, Tom. I like to support Chalice, especially at Christmas.
Merry early Christmas, Tom!
Tom: I'm looking forward to reading the post about your hospital volunteer work.
Cranky Christmas Cathy!
Great post Tom!
Merry Christmas Tom! I'm always up for it - no matter what they call it - I love Christmas, the Holidays, and this special time of year... Wulf, wulf!
"Awaiting the Celebration" is always the title of my Advent bulletin board! This season starts (for me) long before the liturgical year says it does!
LOVE this post! Poor Mike has to put up with Christmas tunes from Sept. on!! :)
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