Year of Saint Joseph
Other saints: Saint Delphinus, Bishop (403); Saint Tharsilla (c. 550); Saint Mochua, Abbot (657); SS Dagobert II (679), Irmina (c. 710), and Adela, Abbess (c. 724); Bd Bartholomew dal Monte, Founder (1726-1778); Bd Paula Cerioli, Foundress (1816-1865); Saint Sharbel Makhlouf (1828-1898)
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 66 The Porter of the Monastery
Mass in the Morning: Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16; Resp Ps 89; Lk 1:67-79
For ever will I sing the goodness of the Lord.
SAINT JOSEPH, LIGHT OF PATRIARCHS,
PRAY FOR US.
CHRISTMAS EVE DAY
Jeremy Driscoll
The earth asleep a season
and birdsong few
the gliding clouds
and the immense quiet
soggy soil yet
already noiseless
push of the green.
This afternoon the light
was clearly longer than
yesterday
and the day
before.
Let us celebrate the light
tonight.
let us light a candle
and a tree.
Far stars shall see
our hopeful signals
and let mercies
and skyly strengths
waking the earth
stirring the birds
drying the soil
and pulling the green.
BLESSED BE THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; FOR HE HAS COME TO HIS PEOPLE AND SET THEM FREE.
(Lk 1:68)
Today's photo: One last look at our 2020 Advent wreath with a friendly reminder: Advent "ends before First Vespers (Evening Prayer I) of Christmas", and "Christmas Time runs from First Vespers (Evening Prayer I) of the Nativity of the Lord [Christmas] up to and including the Sunday after Epiphany or after January 6" (Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year, 40, 33).
© Gertrude Feick 2020
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