Long time readers know
Christmas is important to me – and I can get downright insufferable about
it. In keeping with that, I
thought this 10th Anniversary year of this blog would be a good time
to look back at past Christmasy posts.
My first Christmas as an
Anglican and the first one of this blog was bittersweet. On Christmas Eve and the day itself, I
missed out on having an Anglican churchy Christmas, and I was disappointed
about that.
But then I walked into a
favorite Anglican church the 1st Sunday after Christmas, and I
discovered Christmas is a season.
I got my churchy Christmas after all.
My next Christmas Eve was
my first one to participate in a Lessons and Carols service (as I will this Christmas
Eve).
My 2007 studies in Oxford
brought about a tutorial paper that is one of the best things I’ve written, if I
may say so myself. It ties
together the Black Death with our celebration of Christmas today, if you can
imagine that.
I’ve mentioned I have a
weakness for Christmas lights.
I’ve created and used a chant for Christmas Eve.
And, of course, I’ve
fretted over when I should allow Advent to become Christmasy.
Yes, it’s been good to be
an Anglican at Christmas.
But I cannot let this
Christmas pass without mentioning a past Christmas far more memorable than any
of mine. This Christmas Eve will
be the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Truce near the beginning
of World War I. I recommend this BBC documentary.
That was a
bittersweet Christmas indeed.
May you have a memorable
and happy Christmas.
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