Posted on 12/28/2020 5:56:06 AM PST by Kaslin
There was plenty of space under the tree this year. Not anything to do at all with being good or bad. Rather, that the usual bulk of boxes, fruit baskets, bangles, and bows have been replaced by a coterie of cute little string-handle bags containing a variety of personal protective equipment and all of its accoutrement. Ugly Sweaters with mismatched patterns have given way to costly designer masks, and perfumes and colognes to hand sanitizers. There were gift cards for all manner of take-out and home delivery. Half-jokingly, a few rolls of toilet paper and paper towels were spread atop the fallen pine needles to fill up the open spaces. No need to worry about receipts and gift returns.
Christmas Eve Mass at the Vatican was held earlier to accommodate Italy’s curfew restrictions on the faithful flock. The television flashed a glimpse of the Holy See’s baffling, sci-fi Nativity scene. Oxen and lamb seem half-caste and roughly hewn out of concrete blocks. The whole creche, Baby Jesus and all, more resembled a group of babushkas painted on Russian nesting dolls.
My participation at church had been spotty at best the last few months, as the Mass had become more of an antiseptic ritual than a celebration of faith. Proxy rights for churchgoing had ceded to livestreaming Sunday morning Mass while in a leather recliner, praying along in denims with feet up on the ottoman and a cup of coffee at arm’s length.
Attendance at Christmas morning Mass was feeble. No jousting over spaces in the parking lot. There was no choir, a single altar server, and no backroom catechism classes obligating the attendance of children. The nave was uncommonly quiet.
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Why is this person lying about what Christmas was like this year?
My tree and my sister’s tree had a ton of gifts under them./ REAL gifts.
And we had almost 30 people at her house on Christmas Eve.
Maybe this faggot put designer masks under the tree.
I bought my great nephew seven different kinds of drums
He went crazy for the bongos and he’s only 1 :)
There’s enough really monstrous things going on.
If someone was too cowardly to celebrate Christmas with their family that’s on them.
Our Christmas was exactly the same as in the past. The only difference was that we chose to watch our church service online instead of in-person as one of my son’s had major surgery the week before and did not need to catch the death virus.
First of many................😷
“I bought my great nephew seven different kinds of drums”
You may regret that................🙄
you bought someone’s child SEVEN drums!!
More scams a coming.
We went to Christmas Eve service as usual. A few of our elderly were masked along with a few families with medically fragile members.
Our church had two services this year and both were packed. We had many visitors because some churches in the area (looking at you, United Methodists) had canceled services.
We met my parents at my daughter’s house and had a perfectly normal Christmas morning. No masks, no hand sanitizer. Mom gave TP as a gag gift to both households, but it was also an homage to several Christmases ago when EVERYBODY got TP because she bought it at Sam’s club three visits in a row.
Revenge?
Has to be....
We had fun. No grandparents but the wayward daughter came home !
Played classic Christmas music. Great food. Kids got presents.
It’s up to YOU what kind of mindset you have. Entirely
I advise ignoring the media Only Freerepublic!
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