RCA: Potpourri Of Ideas For Advent, Christmas, And Epiphany Church of Cary, Cary, North Carolina, tells this story figures should be within reach of children in our Church of Hurley, shares this christmasLent tradition http://www.rca.org/worship/material/advent/potpourri.php
Extractions: More... Questions or comments? Please mail us! Advent Chain Make your own Advent chain with a link for each day from December 2 through December 25. Use purple construction paper to make links for the twenty-three days in Advent and white construction paper to make the link for Christmas Day. On each link write one activity. After writing an activity on each link, attach the links to make a chain. Each day remove a link and do the activity as a family. Here are some suggestions to get you started: Bake cookies for college students. Sing a favorite carol. Visit a shut-in. Decorate the Christmas tree. Set up the creche.
A Scorched Earth Christmas Johnny was still weak, like a child. But he was smart. Sometimes he had peculiar concepts. That is irrelevant to the story. HO HO HO! Merry christmas! http://www.armory.com/~crisper/Scorch/xmas.html
Extractions: Little Johnny crouched behind the couch, quivering with excitement. No, you silly goose! Not that kind of excitement! Johnny was only eight, and his little body had not yet flowered into puissant, powerful manliness. Johnny was still weak, like a child. But he was smart. And cunning. And he had an inquiring mind. Many was the afternoon Johnny had spent playing with the chemistry set he had found in the attic, putting chemicals in a spoon and heating them over a candle to see what happened. Sometimes he hallucinated. Sometimes he slipped the results in the broth for the evening's potroast. Sometimes he had peculiar concepts. That is irrelevant to the story. What is relevant was that he had decided to stay up late, and to try to catch Santa Claus! Yes, it was Christmas night. And, unlike passe Hannukah and bizarre Kwanzaa, Christmas had a large, bizarre, pagan figure in fruity clothes who knew who was good and who was bad (much like the Scorched Earth Party ), and gave such people their rewards and punishments with a stern and cruel hand (again, much like the
Chanukah Story how to sing christmas Carols, and on christmas Day, they the stage blew up, and all the children were killed The full story of how my neighbor s mother and his http://www.shemayisrael.com/chanukah/courage.htm
Extractions: The Courage to Be Different: A Message for this Season Dear Friends, It was the winter of 1952. I was six years old, and my mother took me on a walk around our neighborhood in downtown Brooklyn, New York City. The stores were all lit up for the Christian holiday, and in each store window, there was a Christmas tree prominently displayed. "Mommy," I asked, "Can we also have a Christmas tree in our house?" My mother was surprised by my request, and she responded: "As you know, Jeffrey, we are Jewish, and Jewish people do not celebrate Christmas. It is not our holiday." The next night, I was in for a surprise. My parents called me and my younger sister into the living room and pointed to a small candelabra. "This is a Chanukah Menorah," my father explained, "and tonight begins the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Chanukah." He gave a brief summary of the Chanukah story, and then lit the first candle. Afterwards, we were given presents. To my great delight, this ceremony was repeated for the next seven nights, including the giving of the presents! This was my first Chanukah celebration. When I grew older, I was told that my question concerning the Christmas Tree had inspired my parents to begin the celebration of Chanukah in our own home. Until then, my parents had never explained to us that we had Jewish holidays of our own. Both of my parents were progressive social activists who were involved in a variety of political and social causes for the betterment of society, and the conversation in our home centered on the evils of prejudice and the importance of recognizing that all human beings are basically the same, despite our different skin color or religions. My parents did not consider themselves "religious," although they often spoke about human brotherhood and how we are all "God's children."
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