The Fifth Day of Christmas

Happy Fifth Day of Christmas!

I’m busy too (the comings! the goings!), and Thursday is New Year’s Eve — and the Seventh Day of Christmas! Get ready to join us on {pretty, happy, funny, real} with your blog post or Instagram on your “Days of Christmas” and how they are going (how about hashtagging it #PHFR12DaysOfChristmas?).

And/or add your favorite posts of the year — we will be doing a post roundup for you from our favorites here on the blog. Do the same with yours! Or if you are doing the Instagram #2015BestNine, link that IG. Let’s see that year’s round-up!

My thoughts are turning to the new year. I would love, love, love to do another series with you, my dear readers. What’s on my mind is two fantastic — and related — books that I read this past year with our St. Greg’s Pocket, and I was thinking that you might want to do the same with yours. (I have to figure out the details — a podcast? Periscope? Is two books too many? — but if you want to get a jump, the ones I have in mind are Romano Guardini’s The Spirit of the Liturgy and Pope Benedict/Joseph Ratzinger’s The Spirit of the Liturgy.)

If you don’t have a St. Greg’s Pocket, it would be good to start one (or check that link to see if there is one near you)!

Maria Von Trapp writes about how the time between the Epiphany and Ash Wednesday is so fitting for visiting — just that good, old-fashioned kind of fun gathering of families and/or interested couples. There’s a lull between the holidays and the penitential season — but before outdoor work starts calling our names — when we can enjoy cozy hospitality and friendship.

To me, there’s something very heartwarming and encouraging about pondering how even entertaining can be liturgical — that is, can be made to fit into the very rhythm of life — interior, cosmic (the seasons in nature), and religious. We seem to want to gather together anyway, don’t we, in these still short — but lengthening! — days, and it may be that making actual plans with this encouragement in mind will be the tipping point for us to put our thoughts into action.

I’ve found that if there is a book that we friends are reading in common, it makes for wonderful conversation.

Also, we need to craft! I’m hoping to show you a few things I made and think about what would be good to work on in the coming year. Those quilts won’t sew themselves! What are you hoping to make in the new year?

 

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