December. This is the time for baking cookies in all shapes and forms, but some are definitely more strongly associated with the holiday spirit. This posts opens a series of four chapters. I start with gingerbread, using a recipe from Tanya, tent-baker extraordinaire, aka The Gingerbread Queen. Subsequent posts will cover Sugar Cookies, Macarons, and […]
COOKIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS: GINGERBREAD — Bewitching Kitchen
Did only three men see the star over Bethlehem? Might others have looked seeing nothing more than an ordinary light? The world never knew it was there. What did the wise men see but a star that led them to “the light of the world”? In the beginning, before there were stars, a sun, a […]
How Bright the Star of Bethlehem — God’s Grace ~ God’s Glory!
Thought for the Day – 17 December – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) The Cave of Bethlehem “Why, asked Bossuet, should the Eternal Word of God, infinitely and everlastingly happy, have deigned to assume in time, the fallen state of humanity?Why should He have chosen, as the scene of His miraculous life of love, […]
Thought for the Day – 17 December – The Cave of Bethlehem — AnaStpaul
Mattana, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today is the first Sunday in Advent. Advent does not, as I’ve read in more than one place, begin on the last Sunday in November. Mostly it does, but occasionally it begins on the first Sunday in December. The crucial thing is that Advent begins four Sundays before Christmas. […]
Medieval Advent — A Writer’s Perspective
The Nativity – Greg Olsen By Charlie Johnston The first Advent occupied hundreds of years as a groaning world awaited the appearance of the Messiah. When He came in a manger, few noticed it at all. When He began His ministry, the ruling class rejected Him as a dangerous fraud. Even those who believed in […]
Our New Advent — A Sign of Hope
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