My True Love gave to me Eight Maids-A-Milking. What is milk but the comfort and strength from a mother to her child? Eight Maids-A-Milking represent the comfort those who were lost received from Christ when he delivered the Sermon on the Mound. These is known as the Eight Beatitudes.
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I'm a wife, mother, grandmother and avid home cook.I believe in eating healthy whenever possible, while still managing to indulge in life's pleasures.
On This 7th Day of Christmas
My True Love gave to me Seven Swans a Swimming. The Seven Swans represent the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. We have been blessed with different gifts, according to God’s grace given to us.
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On the 6th Day of Christmas, my True Love gave to me Six Geese a Laying. The geese are laying eggs – new life, new creation. Just as the Lord created the world in six days.
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My True Love gave to me Five Golden Rings. Christians know these Five Golden Rings as the Pentateuch. Christ knew them as the first 5 books of the Torah. Both know the Five Golden Rings as Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
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On the Fourth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Four Calling Birds. The Four Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, calling the Faithful home. The Gospels tell of the birth, the life, death and resurection of the Son of Man.
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On the Third Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Three French Hens. Faith, hope and love, heavenly gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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On the Second Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, two turtle doves. The Old and the New Testament bound together are said to be turtle doves. Each of the twelve days of Christmas represent acts of faith in the perfect love story older than time itself.
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On the First Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a Partridge in a Pear Tree. My true love is my Heavenly Father. And on this, the first day, He gave to us all the Christ Child. Merry Christmas.
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Today represents so many things all rolled into one amazing evening. It is Christmas Eve. At midnight the heavens will open, and angels will sing. For on this night a Savior is born.
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We have gone through the darkest night of the year. We survived. We have counted down the days until the birth of Our Lord. It is nearly upon us!
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Today is the second Ember Days of Advent. Once upon a time, Ember Days were days of fasting and penance. Today they are not. Why? Because the Church has reconsidered certain obligations imposed upon the faithful that might be too much, too ridged, too demanding.
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Today is National Maine Day, French Fried Shrimp Day and Humbug Day. Today also marks the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere. Just what does that mean?
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Just as the First Advent Sunday of the season marked the beginning of a new year within the church, this first Ember Days of Advent is the first Ember Days of that same new year. The whole of the Universal Church once acknowledged each set of Ember Days as an obligation. While much of Europe still does, the United States conference of Bishops did away with the observance.
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Just looking at this festive dish and my mind is singling Jose Feliciano’s Feliz Navidad. Such a classic from my youth. I was a free-spirited hippie teenager when that song was released. Wow, and to me it feels like yesterday.
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Honey is said to be the nectar of the gods – golden, sweet and perfect. Honey is also one of those things I wonder about. I mean, what ever possessed someone to harvest honey from a bunch of swarming bees? There are cave painting in Spain depicting people foraging for honey more than 8,000 years ago.
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