15-17 December

WEEKEND DIARIES

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Christmas is only well-nigh a calendar week away, in addition to the snowfall in addition to the tree (along alongside the stress of things procrastinated) are making it experience so. I'm trying genuinely difficult to proceed my eyes on the prize, on the argue for the season.

Some of my favorite ways of doing this are past times reading the daily Mass readings, proverb the Rosary when possible, praying a Christmas novena, in addition to through Advent in addition to Christmas songs. My absolute favorite, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, is sung at my parish almost every Dominicus of Advent (which is genuinely six Sundays inwards the Maronite Church, only a fiddling trivia for you). I notice the words, sung or read, to hold upward a most beautiful in addition to comforting meditation for the hectic days of the season.

O come, O come, Emmanuel,

and ransom captive Israel

that mourns inwards lonely exile here

until the Son of God appear.

R: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel

shall come upward to thee, O Israel!

O come, Thou Wisdom, from on high,

and fellowship all things far in addition to nigh;

to us the path of noesis show,

and instruct us inwards her ways to go. R.

O come, O come, Thou Lord of might,

who to Thy tribes on Sinai's height

in ancient times did plough over the law

in cloud in addition to majesty in addition to awe. R.

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse's stem,

from ev'ry foe deliver them

that trust Thy mighty ability to save,

and plough over them vict'ry o'er the grave. R.

O come, Thou Key of David, come

and opened upward broad our heav'nly home;

make rubber the agency that leads on high

that nosotros no to a greater extent than bring effort to sigh. R.

O come, Thou Dayspring from on high,

and cheer us past times thy drawing nigh;

disperse the gloomy clouds of night

and death's dark shadow pose to flight. R.

O come, Desire of the nations, bind

in 1 the hearts of all mankind;

bid every strife in addition to quarrel cease

and fill upward the globe alongside heaven's peace. R.

Whatever the troubles inwards your life, the anxieties inwards your heart, recall that nosotros bring a God who is alongside us, who wishes to comfort, to guide, to deliver, in addition to to cheer. So allow us rejoice!