Happy Advent !!
Posted: Wednesday, 20 December 2006 |
We are in the third week of the lovely season of Advent and I would like to wish everyone a VERY HAPPY ADVENT !! This is my Advent wreath (and the coal fire in the background). Every Sunday I light one more candle - there are three purple candles and one pink candle. The colors for Advent are a deep royal purple and/or a deep blue. I have blue garlands and wide purple ribbons hanging up all over the house!
Advent lasts until Christmas Eve and then CHRISTMAS IS HERE !!
And Christmas for us Catholics lasts eight days - the "Octave of Christmas."
During Advent I await the coming of the Christ Child - the Son of God. Normally my Nativity Scene would remain empty of the baby Jesus figurine until Christmas morning. But this year I don't have my nativity scene - it's packed up and awaiting shipment with my other things back in America. My lovely cousins in Alaska, whom I had the joy of living with for almost a year, sent me this wonderful Alaskan version of the Nativity Scene complete with igloo, Yup'ik people and huskies! I'll enjoy using it next year when all of my stuff will finally join me in Orkney.
I loved the reading in today's Compline:
"Be angry if you must, but do not sin: do not let your anger outlast the sunset: do not give the Devil his chance." Ephesians 4:26-27
So...I traded my quiet cabin in the Alaskan woods for the howling winds of Orkney and life on a farm. 
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