As the hours pass by the last minute preparations are made in our Convent home.
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- Sister Mary Ann is getting the table trimmed for our Christmas dinner.
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- How many are coming tomorrow?
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- These napkins are coming.
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- I like the fanned look.
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- An elegant table awaits the guests.
Sister Kathleen is busy in our chapel.
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- The tree is trimmed and now Sister Kathleen is on the ladder.
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- Blue and white sheer material and lights!
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- It looks like Sister is going behind the tree to the tabernacle.
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- The cross to the tabernacle…
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- The crib, the cross and the Ciborium!
St. Francis loved these three symbols of God’s tremendous love for us.
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- What is Sister Kathleen doing now?
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- The back wall of our chapel!
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- Amazing!
As the evening hours close in on us we gather to bless our Christmas tree and our Nativity scene.
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- Behold, this is our God. We have waited for Him
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- The Gospel according to St. Luke…
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- So the shepherds went with haste…
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- …and found Mary and Joseph and the Babe lying in the manger.
“St. Francis’ biographer, Thomas of Celano, recalls that Francis “stood before the manger…overcome with love and filled with a wonderful happiness…” For Francis, the simple celebration was meant to recall the hardships Jesus suffered even as an infant, a savior who chose to become poor for our sake, a truly human Jesus.”
