No, Christmas is not yet over, if it can be said that a Feast is ever "over." We julianites still have Monday for the Feast, and you're all invited to St. John's on Christmas Eve (Sunday at 8 pm) for Compline, and Christmas morning at 10 am.
Or, come along in your reading these little spots of plum pudding:
First of all, there are three (so far) snippets from W. H. Auden wonderwork, For the Time Being. There is this "motto" from the Summons. Then there is this Christmas narration, also from the Summons.
A blue note sounds in Porphyry Field: but it's bright, at least, in surmising that the end of us yearns, as does all broken nature, for the advent of the Son of Man.
Just to show I'm fairminded to the gregorians, I sent this Trinitarian Noel on their Feast, which, for me, was really the twelfth of December. I couldn't miss the chance to quote my favorite Marian epigraph: "O Daughter of thy Son."
Then there is this re-telling of an old Russian Christmas story, of an old woman who tries to follow the Magi.
What is a blog without a rant? Here's this on the ethics of putting on a multi-million dollar Broadway-production of a Christmas pageant. There is also an intriguing suggestion that the Peanuts cast might be better witnesses to the Trinity and the Incarnation than the megachurches. But you would expect a smarmy remark like that from me, who found more Christian edification at a Bruce Springsteen concert than any and all of Joel Osteen's remarks.
Todd Wood, an Independent Baptist preacher in Idaho Falls ID, aka Salt Lake City North, notes that Deseret Book, the LDS publishing house, is pushing Joel Osteen:
http://heartissuesforlds.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/is-lds-deseret-admiring-americas-new-apostle-joel-osteen
For good reason, apparently. Looks like the DNA is pretty similar.
Posted by: FrGregACCA | January 02, 2008 at 08:35 PM