Up in the hills behind the stable were shepherds and their flocks of sheep. Sheep are very useful animals and rather endearing, but they are not very bright. They like to run all over the place, baahing with all their might and not looking where they are going. So sheep get lost. Sheep get lost [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Christmas Creche: December 26-The Shepherd
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Christmas Creche: December 25-Jesus
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And Mary gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the manger, for there was no room in the inn. The son did not wait, for the son is and was and had always been and will ever be. The son did not worry about glory, for [...]
Christmas Creche: December 24-Mary
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Mary rode the donkey to Bethlehem. When Mary and Joseph got to Bethlehem, the town was very crowded. They could find nowhere to sleep but in the innkeeper’s stable with ox and the manger and the silly sheep and their donkey. Most people would have been upset, but Mary just waited, in glory and full [...]
O Antiphons: O Emmanuel, December 23
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“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.” Isaiah 7:14 O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio Gentium, et Salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos, Domine, Deus noster. O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope [...]
Christmas Creche: December 23-Joseph
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Joseph the Carpenter had waited. He had waited to marry Mary. Although she was young, Joseph saw that Mary was good and kind and true, and he loved her. So he waited until she was older. They became engaged. And Joseph was very happy. Then Joseph heard something that made him unhappy. Mary was going [...]
O Antiphons: O Rex Gentium, December 22
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“For a child has been born for us, a son given us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6 O Rex Gentium et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti O King of [...]
Christmas Creche: December 22-The Donkey
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The donkey was sure he did not have to wait for his days of glory. He was in them. He worked for a carpenter named Joseph in a town called Nazareth. The donkey carried whatever Joseph told him to carry: sacks of cement, baskets of bricks, tall piles of wood. He worked very hard and [...]
O Oriens
Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness—on them light has shined.” Isaiah 9:2. O Oriens, splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae: veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis O Rising Sun, splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness: Come [...]
Christmas Creche: December 21–The lamb
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Another animal occasionally ate from the manger. A silly little sheep snuck snacks from the manger when he trotted by the stable on his way the nearby fields. The manger was there. The sheep was hungry. HE didn’t see anything wrong with sneaking food from it. Of course, when the shepherd caught him eating from [...]
Christmas Creche: December 20–The Manger
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When he was hungry, the ox ate his food from a manger. It was not lovely this manger, but it was useful. It was made from the stump of a large old olive tree that the innkeeper’s grandfather had cut down to build the first inn. It may seem very disappointing to become a manger, [...]
