Monthly Archives: December 2025

ADVENT III Evening Prayer I

December 13, 2025Evening PrayerJohn Leonard

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SERVICE OF PRAISE

Greeting/Invocation

As the Jewish mother lights the candles at the beginning of Sabbath, Christians light (a) candle(s) at the beginning of Evening Prayer. During this Third Week

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Lights on St. Lucy’s Day

December 13, 2025Living the FeastJohn Leonard

saint lucy

I mentioned when launching this website that you could expect so see something about our use of electrical lighting on the Feast of Santa Lucia– a few years ago, a student reported on the “Eco-Contemplative Practice” (= some action … Read the rest

December 13 – Santa Lucia

December 13, 2025Morning PrayerJohn Leonard

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Sancta Lucia (283-304)

We light Three Candles on the Advent Wreath.

Signing our lips with a small sign of the Cross we say or sing:

O Holy ONE + open … Read the rest

Our Lady of Guadalupe

December 12, 2025Evening PrayerJohn Leonard

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SERVICE OF LIGHT

Greeting/Invocation

We light three Candles on the Advent Wreath, and say or sing:

Light and Peace in Jesus Christ our Lord!

~Thanks be to God!

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Dec 13 Swedish Lucia Buns

December 12, 2025Living the FeastJohn Leonard

Lussekatter. With only 8 or 9 days until the Winter Solstice and 12 days until Christmas, December 13th brought to Scandinavia the Feast of Santa Lucia, whose name in Latin means both LIGHT and SIGHT–quite significant in that part of … Read the rest

Our Lady of Guadalupe

December 12, 2025Morning PrayerJohn Leonard

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Today’s feast commemorates the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe in December of 1531 to the Aztec peasant, St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. The story is well-known and retold in countless communities … Read the rest