Thursday 19th December - O Radix Jesse antiphon, and other things...

 The tree hasn't changed since yesterday;

Just tinsel, lights and star at the moment. The decorations 'laid out' (in a heap) before the fireplace is exactly the same too!

This morning I settled down with a lemon and ginger tea, my book and my to-do list. I read through the list, and read a chunk of my book, and that was all the Christmas activity I did. 

I dropped one of the dried orange slices into my tea; it did add a nice citrus flavour. 

Meanwhile BB did my father’s shopping, took it round to his flat and put it away, and fixed a ceiling light bulb that had died. 

Did you know that selling fluorescent light bulbs was banned in February 2024? Luckily my father already had a spare bulb in his cupboard. Getting an electrician to come and install a complete new light fitment one week before Christmas Day would probably have been... difficult...

Yesterday evening I added lights to my Corinne Lapierre calendar;

I'm considering skipping forward in the instructions (yes, I have been peeking!) to the bit which is most Christmassy, and then going back and completing the other bits. Why not, sez I. Each 'day' in the booklet is going to take me several days to complete anyway. I'm enjoying the calendar immensely provided I don't feel obliged to commit to the schedule in the booklet.

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'O Antiphons' day three... (for more information follow this link)

19 December – O Radix Jesse

O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples;

before you kings will shut their mouths,

to you the nations will make their prayer:

Come and deliver us, and delay no longer. cf Isaiah 11.10; 45.14; 52.15; Romans 15.1