The interesting history of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" song.

@EuroChristianMusic

“All sodomites, men and women, died all over the earth, as Saint Jerome said commenting on the verse Lux orta est iusto [the light was born for the just] (Ps 96:11). This was to make it clear that He [Jesus Christ] was born to reform nature and to promote chastity.”

- Saint Bonaventure, Sermon 21, Nativitate Domine

Good morning and Merry Christmas my friends 🎄🎄🎄

Christian holidays are not obligated to bend over for modern celebrations of shallow pleasantries, consumerism, or pluralist errors.

Christmas celebrates God bringing hope to a sinful world, through his holy incarnation. He came to redeem you from your ignorance, not spread it.

@TheNewColumbiaMovement

Christmas dinner, 1936. Dinner consisted of potatoes, cabbage and pie.

Urgent prayer request!! 🙏
Friends of ours from the parish we go to. Please keep them in your prayers.
"Please pray for our family! We were t-boned by a drunk driver last night while driving to midnight mass. Austin is in really bad shape, brain injury, internal bleeding from his liver, spleen, and adrenal gland, back is broken in a few places, leg is broken, hand is broken. He had his first surgery this morning they cut from his ankle to thigh to place some metal plates and screws.
Myself and the baby are ok, head injury, and soft tissue damage very difficult to move and my hips are unstable.
All the kids have concussions and soft tissue injuries, Brigid bit off the tip of her tongue, and Ambrose has many chipped teeth.

But we are all alive Praise God!!!!"

Mother and daughter watch a tall ship navigate the Thames assisted by a steam tug, London, ca. 1880. Photog. unknown

"Please," "thank you," "sir," and "ma'am" will promote our civilization more than any esoteric tome or squabbling over the most based 18th century philosopher.

my MD friend is getting married this coming weekend
prayers for him and his wife to be
may God bless that good man and his wife

Making a wool blanket, the old-fashioned way.

Please pray for my little brother. He is having a seizure right now and this is the second time he had one. It also doesn't help he got all the boosters and the mRNA therapy shot. Please pray 7 Aves in honor of Mater Dolorosa and a Rosary (preferably 15 decades)

Please pray for a friend of mine and her two little girls. Both of them were raped by their father and the judge has ordered her to take them to him for visitation and she can't appeal the decision for now because the courts are at recess