Posted on 12/26/2023 3:27:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
Gifts to the poor?
We do that every month via welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, free drugs/needles and anything else the leftist commies can dream up.
Sydney Hobart yacht race.
It’s when you let your obnoxious liberal relatives out of the box you put them in just before dinner.
On the Western calendar St. Stephens' Day is observed on the Second Day of Christmas.
St. Stephen was one of the original seven Deacons appointed and ordained in the Acts of the Apostles; specifically to oversee the distribution to the poor.
This association with aid to those in need is strongly alluded to in the Carol "Good King Wenceslaus".
On St. Stephen's Day is was customary for the poor, servant classes to go from house to house, particularly those of their customers to beg alms or treats. They carried boxes in which to place their bounty, hence the name "Boxing Day".
Kontakion for St. Stephen’s Day:
Yesterday, the Master arrived through the flesh,
and today, the servant departs from the flesh.
Yesterday, the King was born in the flesh,
and today the servant is stoned for His sake and dies.
And we know him as the holy Protomartyr Stephen.
I liked "A Passage to India." I haven't seen "Howard's End," but judging from the title, I figure it's about Raymond "End-Around" Sparling, who played end on Howard Jones' undefeated 1932 USC Trojans football team, which won the National Championship, so it must be an exciting film.
Mary was a sinner, just like the rest of us.
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