Category: Advent

  • Here we are at the start of Advent, and many of us are already saturated with Christmas.                                                                                                                                  We’ve all talked about it, or griped about it – stores filled with Christmas before Jack-o-Lanterns were carved , round-the-clock Christmas movies on multiple TV stations before Thanksgiving turkeys were even delivered to the supermarkets, and an…

  • Evelyn had a special gift. She loved to bake bread. Whenever someone would come to visit, Evelyn would treat her guest to a full pot of hot tea and warm homemade bread with cranberry butter. When the parish had a bake sale, Evelyn would arrive with her arms loaded with freshly bake loaves. When someone…