Our sweet neighbor and I were able to set up the creche in the church, we did decide that next year if it’s 30 below wind-chill, we’re turning the heat on or will set it up when the heat turns on Saturday evenings .  I think I will be taking a technology fast in order to enjoy this precious time with my husband, children and all of our guests this Christmas.  I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!  May you find wonder and Joy in the chubby little Babe born in the humblest of beginnings to the Most Pure Virgin, a Most Chaste Foster Father and know of His & His Father’s Great Love for You!  Merry Christmas! 💒🎄🎵

We still do not have a music/band teacher, but the two dedicated long term substitute teachers did a nice job of putting on a concert with the students. 

Quote of the Day

“And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God’s wise providence … for matters that have been in God’s foreseeing wisdom, since before time began, befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.”

–St. Juliana of Norwich

Today’s Meditation

“Love, by its essence, involves a leap into the unknown, a death to oneself, because genuine love is a love that loves to the end. And to love to the end means to die for those whom you love. It also means to forgive them. This involves the experience, one day or another, of the Cross and, therefore of sacrifice, which will seal the spouses’ unity definitively.”

—Robert Cardinal Sarah, p.25 Couples, Awaken Your Love 

This is the third snow day and by the sound of it, looks like it will continue tomorrow.

https://watch.formed.org/kristoph-the-first-christmas-tree-a-legend-of-st-boniface

Today’s Meditation

“Write: I am Thrice Holy, and I detest the smallest sin. I cannot love a soul which is stained with sin; but when it repents, there is no limit to My generosity toward it. My mercy embraces and justifies it. With My mercy, I pursue sinners along all their paths, and My Heart rejoices when they return to Me. I forget the bitterness with which they fed My Heart and rejoice at their return. Tell sinners that no one shall escape My Hand; if they run away from My Merciful Heart, they will fall into My Just Hands. Tell sinners that I am always waiting for them, that I listen intently to the beating of their heart . . . when will it beat for Me?”
—Jesus to St. Maria Faustina, 1728

We ordered a large truck of feed.  There goes our chance of a winter getaway.  Change my attitude, right?  Thank you God for all of our blessings!!!

Tonight we are planning to do….Nothing!!!😇

We attended the Nutcracker last night.  When the opportunity arises we like to show the children culture outside of agriculture.  The children were mesmerized.  We had 3 event staff come up and compliment us for well behaved children.  I didn’t have time to tell them that I’m convinced that most of that comes from no screen time outside of family screen time. Wean children off of television, ipads, phones, etc and their attention and awe of the world soars!!!

Mother Mary has seen us through all of the storms in our life…with confidence we know that this will continue for she loves each and every one of us so much! Mother Most Pure, Mother Most Chaste, Mother Inviolate, Pray for Us!