Tomorrow is the feast of St. Nicholas. You can read all about him and find ideas of how to celebrate his feast day here, at the St. Nicholas Center. But I wanted to highlight two books that we read each year to celebrate this important saint. The first is by Ann Tompert, simply called Saint [...]
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Saint Nicholas reading
Posted in Advent, december, tagged advent, ann tompert, legends, saints on December 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Time to get out your Creche!
Posted in Advent, Christmas, december, October, saints, tagged advent, animals, Christmas, saints on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This past Sunday was the first Sunday of Advent. In our home, that means it’s time to get out the manger scene. We put everything out, minus the baby Jesus (he’s added after Mass on Christmas Eve). At a local used book sale this year, I picked up book that I hoped would be a [...]
Waiting for Noel
Posted in Advent, december, Living the Liturgical Year, tagged advent, babies, siblings on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I saw this book show up on a library search for “Advent books” I was truly excited. Frankly there aren’t many books that even talk about the season of Advent. It’s usually just lumped in with Christmas as the same thing. But our family truly tries to observe Advent and Christmas as different seasons [...]
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