My kids got their one Epiphany gift Sunday.
I took a break from organizing today. I had to. I'll get back in the swing of it tomorrow.
It was a lovely morning, though, as I spent over an hour speaking with a friend in Maryland and catching up. We don't get the chance to chat often, so we chatted long and heartily. Such a joy!
Then, I cleaned myself up and went to do some small grocery shopping. The kids really liked the chili recipe from the Pampered Chef Kids cookbook (now out of print) and the baked beef enchilada recipe from the Meals In Under 29 Minutes cookbook (also PC, although, the title given by me may be a bit off). So, since we needed milk, some tomatoes and a leek (another PC recipe), I picked up enough stuff to repeat those recipes later this week. They were good as well as SIMPLE to get to the table. I loved the tuna melt (using the Pilsbury cresent rolls into a ring shape), but
My children are all headed to the skate park (an actual skate park - wow!) for a bit before dinner and before the earth rotates enough a certain direction to get us out of the sun's path for the day . . . the sun "goes down" really early here. By 6:30pm it's DARK. In June, when we first got here, I thought it going down by 7:30 was bad . . . but we do get absolutely fine weather almost every day . . . so I'm hardly complaining.
I wish the skeeters weren't so bad here. The landscapers mowed yesterday so they got stirred up and are interested in sucking even my distasteful blood (all my life, skeeters would sit on my skin, begin, and almost immediately fly away . . . I rarely rarely ever get bit good and it's not me swatting them to kingdom come). I imagine them looking over their shoulders and sticking their tongues out at me. I'm such a waste of time for them. He he he. Of course, I read a study a while back that they don't like to bite stressed out folks.
I had no idea. I don't feel stressed.
I think it's my type A+ blood. Plus, it clots up really fast. My blood probably chokes the skeeters! But, I almost prefer a bite than to have them constantly swarming my head and trying to fly up my nose. Many have met their deaths for that trick alone!
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The skeeters don't like me much either. Jan. 6 is the traditional feast of the Epiphany. Sometime in "recent" years they moved it to a Sunday so now it doesn't fall on the 6th. I still think of it as the 6th though. That's how I can make sure I don't have to take down the Christmas decorations AT LEAST until then.
Thanks, Rosemary. That explains it. We took our tree down a bit early, but . . . there's always this year to do it up all properly!!
Actually, the feast of the Epiphany is Jan 6. Always will be. What they transferred was the celebration of the feast.
And that is why what they are doing to the calendar is so detrimental to the our knowledge of the faith.
As to the airborne bloodsuckers - mosquitoes ADORE me and I have A+. I've heard rumors that they like "darker" folk such as moi. Living in Minnesota, home to mosquitoes the size of B52's, was a nightmare.
Haha! You think the sun going down at 6:30 is early? It's dark out around 4:30 here. How ridiculous is that?!
What got me really confused, is why does the Feast of the Holy Innocence fall before Epiphany? I mean, Herod killed the babies after the Magi visited Jesus, so chronologically shouldn't it come after Epiphany?
I did try to look it up though, and one site said it's celebrated that way because the babies were martyrs for Jesus so it's celebrated in the time of Christmas along with some other martyr's feast days.
Skatepark? How about snowman building contest going on here tomorrow most likely?! What a difference!! Yikes!
I'm with Suzanne and Allison! We're supposed to get 10 inches here, and then really cold!
Try Vitamin B1...Take 2 once a day and the mosquitoes will quit biting...trust me, I live by those ponds!
I second Adrienne on Epiphany and on the calendar! As for Mosquitoes, I may try the B1 thing. They make a feast of me and my girls every summer.
Hey, you know you can still do the house blessing. Just ask your priest to bless the chalk. It doesn't have to be on a specific day, that is just the tradition. Have you had your priest over to bless your home yet? You could also do it at that time. You could make him that enchilada dish! Yummy. Thanks for that! Great hit!
Wish the mosquito's didn't like me! Here in Michigan, in the summer, we jokingly refer to mosquito's as our state bird we have so many!!
Dawn, I have asked a particular priest to come bless our home when he's in HI. If he can't do it due to time constraints, I'll ask our priest.
YOU have skeeters there??? Who'd known! I thought just us crazy people who choose to live in Minnesota go batty battling those pests.
In Orthodoxy, we commemorate the Magi on Christmas, and January 6th is the commemoration of Christ's Baptism in the Jordan, called Theophany.
My son and I went to Liturgy, saw the outdoor blessing of the water (a local creek) and will have our house blessed in the next few weeks.
Happy Feast!
It was after Vatican II that the commemoration of the Epiphany was moved to the Sunday after the 1st (or the 6th if it falls on that day!). I guess it's so everyone (because so few go to daily Mass these days) can celebrate.
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