Well firstly, I hope you all celebrated a wonderful week of Thanksgiving!
We celebrated ours by watching The New York Thanksgiving Day Parade together on tv, reading the childrens Thanksgiving Day book together, and then being invited to our relatives to share a truly wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner with them!
Rose has been talking about the Snoopy Float, the Mickey Mouse Float, The Princess Castle Float, and, most glittering of all, the Santa Claus on his Sleigh Float, from the New York Parade, every single day since Thanksgiving!! She LOVED the whole thing!
..And now we're already swept into the special Season of Advent!
Here are two pictures of our family's Advent Wreath. (Please forgive the erroneous colors of the candles! I couldn't find any purple or pink ones while we were shopping. I might get lucky on our next trip though, so that I can replace the other three!) After reading the Introductory Prayer that I had put together from our childrens liturgical year book, we finished it with traditional excerpt from the Mass for the 1st Sunday of Advent and then the first verse of the classic Advent Hymn, O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
I've haven't written out our Introductory Prayer here, as its rather lengthy, but the following is the very short prayer we read afterwards, for the 1st Sunday of Advent:
'O Lord, we beseech Thee, stir up Thy power, and come; that by Thy protection we may deserve to be rescued from the threatening dangers of our sins, and to be saved by Thine deliverance.' Amen.
Finally, the whole family sings the Advent Hymn, 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel':
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lowly exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee O Israel
- While my husband and I were reading these Advent prayers together, both our little girls were gazing so intently at the candle that we managed to recite the prayers with fewer interruptions than we had anticipated!
- From our family to yours - May you and yours enjoy a most blessed and fruitful Holy Season of Advent!
Your Sister in Christ,
Mrs Allen
Here are two pictures of our family's Advent Wreath. (Please forgive the erroneous colors of the candles! I couldn't find any purple or pink ones while we were shopping. I might get lucky on our next trip though, so that I can replace the other three!) After reading the Introductory Prayer that I had put together from our childrens liturgical year book, we finished it with traditional excerpt from the Mass for the 1st Sunday of Advent and then the first verse of the classic Advent Hymn, O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
I've haven't written out our Introductory Prayer here, as its rather lengthy, but the following is the very short prayer we read afterwards, for the 1st Sunday of Advent:
'O Lord, we beseech Thee, stir up Thy power, and come; that by Thy protection we may deserve to be rescued from the threatening dangers of our sins, and to be saved by Thine deliverance.' Amen.
Finally, the whole family sings the Advent Hymn, 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel':
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lowly exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee O Israel
- While my husband and I were reading these Advent prayers together, both our little girls were gazing so intently at the candle that we managed to recite the prayers with fewer interruptions than we had anticipated!
- From our family to yours - May you and yours enjoy a most blessed and fruitful Holy Season of Advent!
Your Sister in Christ,
Mrs Allen
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