[Tax-chick]

At the nursing homes, I imagine there’s a real let-down after Christmas Day, and the residents would appreciate visitors. My husband has been wanting to do standard Christmas carols in Spanish translation, but we didn’t get much opportunity at church this year, the way the calendar fell. Before next year, I’ll find out where the nursing homes are for Spanish-speaking folks, and we can take our band, and maybe some of the people from our congregation, for singing in the Christmas season, up to Epiphany.

[Salvation]

The Eleventh Day of Christmastide

January 4, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Elizabeth Seton was born on August 28, 1774, of a wealthy and distinguished Episcopalian family. She was baptized in the Episcopal faith and was a faithful adherent of the Episcopal Church until her conversion to Catholicism.

She established her first Catholic school in Baltimore in 1808; in 1809, she established a religious community in Emmitsburg, Maryland. After seeing the expansion of her small community of teaching sisters to New York and as far as St. Loius, she died on January 4, 1821, and was declared a saint by Pope Paul VI on September 14, 1975. She is the first native born American to be canonized a saint.

• Day Eleven activity (Story Time)
• Day Eleven recipe (Colonial Wassail)