[Magdalen] Fwd: Our kind

[Jay Weigel]

I always loved Advent best of all the seasons of the church year, and even
though the Orthodox church doesn't have Advent per se, I'm celebrating it
anyway. BTW, the Swedish church has some of the BEST Advent songs, not only
the one we stole from them (Prepare the Royal Highway), but this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSiV0StQU4&index=1&list=RDYJSiV0StQU4

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 2:47 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>Just happens to be close to the same time I'm observing the season of
> Advent, preparing to celebrate the Feast of the Incarnation.<<<
>
> I like to remind those generally piss-offable in that regard, that
> Christ's-mass doesn't begin until sundown on the 24th.  Until then, it's a
> time of penitence and introspection.
>
> "But it's the Christmas season!"
> "Nope, not yet.  And you better toss out your chocolate calendar lest you
> have even more to atone for."
> "You're just being a Scrooge!"
> "At least he knew his calendar."
>
> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>
> "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
> "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
>