Matthew 11:10-11

I had no access to the internet on your birthday yesterday, the 14th , but better late than never. Happy, happy birthday mom and many more to come ! We love you !

Below is  my Christmas wish list. I hope and pray they all come true.

1. that I have a chance to go and visit my parents and siblings in my home country next year ;

2. that the Lord may continually grant my family happiness, peace, health and prosperity in the coming year ;

3. that orphaned and abandoned children all over the world be loved and cared for and not forgotten especially this special time of the year ;

4. that the Lord grant me and my husband a long , healthy life to be able to support and care  for our only  child and guide him in his growing up years ;

5. that my son grows up to be a good Catholic and a  well educated and successful individual with a compassionate heart for the less fortunate ;

6. long life, health, happiness and prosperity to my parents and siblings ;

7. a stable and happy married life ;

8. worldwide peace ;

9. physical and spiritual strength to face life’s daily problems and challenges ;

10.  many Happy Christmasses to come

I’m very busy at the moment.  A Touching Christmas Story will fill the emptiness of my post today.

This gigantic Christmas tree dwarfed me as I knelt  taking its picture. Beautiful !

Delicious looking ginger bread house . Yum !

My son JM has grown this much from a nine month baby boy I held in my arms nine Christmassses ago.

I treasure every moment spent with my son,  a few years more he won’t be the same as this nine year old boy posing in front of the ginger bread house.

A history of the Christmas Nativity Scene which rests under our Christmas trees.

The traditional association between the gifts mentioned in the song and the various spiritual gifts in the The Twelve Days of Christmas. Happy singing !

In those days John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea (and) saying, “Repent,  for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”  It was of him that the prophet Isaiah had spoken when he said:  “A voice of one crying out in the desert, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.”

- Matthew 1:1-3 

Saint Anne Conceiving the Virgin Mary by Jean Bellegambe

O God
Who by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin
didst make her a worthy habitation for Thy Son
and didst by his foreseen death
preserve her from all stain of sin,
grant, we beseech Thee,
that through her intercession
we may be cleansed from sin
and come with pure hearts to Thee. Amen

- Benedictine Monastic Diurnal

Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about ?

Have a really  nice Charlie Brown Christmas !