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Keep Christ in Christmas
I had not heard of this toy mass of yours. It is a really nice thing to do.
But, you live in a classier area than I do, so if there are poverty problems where you are, it shows how bad things are becoming.
frankbeswick, on 12/05/2017
Keep Christ in Christmas
I have organised a Toy Mass at church for about 25 years for local children who don't get Christmas gifts. Everyone is invited to bring along a wrapped gift marked with a gender and age on it. These are taken to local collection points where ...
Veronica, on 12/05/2017
Keep Christ in Christmas
BSG, that American program seems like a good idea. In the UK, whose poverty levels are soaring under this incompetent, morally irresponsible bunch that we miscall a government, a large section of the poor now suffer food problems, while the ...
frankbeswick, on 12/05/2017
Keep Christ in Christmas
I should have also mentioned Christmas tree programs in many Catholic churches in Louisiana. Yesterday I saw four Christmas trees on the altar. They had paper ornaments. The way this works is the congregation s invited to take one or more ...
blackspanielgallery, on 12/04/2017
Keep Christ in Christmas
Veronica, the singing of Christmas carols here starts in November, and some radio stations have already gone to Christmas music. In church it is too earl, but outside of the churches it works well. Every year there is a gathering in Jackson ...
blackspanielgallery, on 12/04/2017
Keep Christ in Christmas
Thanks, Frank, for the information. I believe the reason both Germany and Austria get mentioned is because they were once one country, Prussia. The year 1818 would place i in the timeframe of Prussia, and the location of a small town near ...
blackspanielgallery, on 12/04/2017
Christmas food for the Tudor rich and poor
Sweetness was supplied for those who could afford it by honey. The monks had been great beekeepers, but beekeeping went into decline for a while during and after the Tudor period, when the monks were dispossessed. Some people also ate ...
frankbeswick, on 12/04/2017
Christmas food for the Tudor rich and poor
The Tudors were terrible monarchs. They knew their claim was very weak to say the least and were terrified and vicious. .
Fortunately, their line died out as none of Henry's three children had children so the Tudor line ended with Elizabeth ...
Veronica, on 12/04/2017
Christmas food for the Tudor rich and poor
Tudor England saw an increase in landlessness due to landlord's siezing common land and evicting the poor to make room for sheep, which led to St Thomas More declaring that the meat has inherited the Earth! The plight of the poor, whether ...
frankbeswick, on 12/04/2017
Keep Christ in Christmas
Traditionally carols should not be sung before Christmas Eve but i think it is a raising up of our hearts and this limitation should not be strictly enforced.
We sing all the carols you list in your article. In addition, ......
The Coventry ...
Veronica, on 12/04/2017
Keep Christ in Christmas
There is no sectarian claiming of carols in the UK, and I don't know of any sectarianism in claiming hymns. I do know that silent night is a German carol and that when I was a young schoolchild we had a headmaster who loved it, as hearing ...
frankbeswick, on 12/04/2017
Keep Christ in Christmas
I have heard all three of the carols you mention. I am curious whether there are carols unknown here that are popular in the U. K. Also, do your Anglican neighbors claim Silent Night, since i was an Anglican bishop who altered the wording for ...
blackspanielgallery, on 12/03/2017
Keep Christ in Christmas
"The reason for the season "
This is a lovely post and i applaud the title of the article too. I have 7 cribs dotted around my downstairs at Christmas. It certainly helps to keep the " reaon for the season " in my mind.
The wreaths you ...
Veronica, on 12/03/2017
Bridges of the Hudson Valley
Veronica, tunnelling in compressed air can produce the bends.
frankbeswick, on 12/03/2017
Bridges of the Hudson Valley
Thanks. They are indeed wonderful bridges, functional and beautiful!
jptanabe, on 12/02/2017