Lady Sharon | December 25, 2009
Christmas Day by Dido Thoughts on this day of Christmas can be filled with tremendous joy or for some the deepest of sorrows. In this world today there are those who are still suffering and alone. There are those who have been forsaken and forgotten. There are those who grieve for a love and [...]
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Lady Sharon | December 25, 2009
A Christmas Eve L letter from Fra Giovanni Giocondo I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you, which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us [...]
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Lady Sharon | December 24, 2009
Silent Night Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and Child Holy Infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace With bowed iron heads the Knights of the Pain Table kneel with gratitude to be here on this Holy Night. Suffering leadeth us [...]
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Lady Sharon | December 24, 2009
A Christmas Prayer This night is born of love. To those who doth celebrate this special night, the star doth guide our humble hertes. Celestial musik doth play. As we sommon up remembrances of things past, we thinketh of those who are not by our side. Those we still love now breathe heaven’s sweetest ayre, [...]
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Lady Sharon | December 23, 2009
Gloucestershire Wassail Then here’s to the maid in the lily white smock Who tripped to the door and slipped back the lock Who tripped to the door and pulled back the pin For to let these jolly wassailers in. Glad Tidings to all! Trueue friends - Come ye all to the Great Hall of Camelot! [...]
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Lady Sharon | December 22, 2009
The Huron Carol by Heather Dale “Twas in the moon of wintertime when all the birds had fled That mighty Gitchi Manitou sent angel choirs instead; Before their light the stars grew dim and wondering hunters heard the hymn, Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.” In 1643, Jean de Brébeuf, [...]
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Lady Sharon | December 20, 2009
Bob Hope How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. ~William Shakespeare When thou hast a gift to cheer and laugh and entertain, it is wonderful. But to use that gift to give to those in the most direst of circumstances is a great blessing [...]
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