Yesterday, First of December, begun this year's Advent. It's a new Liturgical Year that begins and it's a praparation for Christmas.
We must remember that there is no Christmas without Christ.
Yesterday, First of December, begun this year's Advent. It's a new Liturgical Year that begins and it's a praparation for Christmas.
We must remember that there is no Christmas without Christ.
"Blaring trumpets and thundering serenaded Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés as he waded ashore on September 8, 1565. The Spanish admiral kissed a cross held aloft by the fleet's captain, Father Francisco Lopez, then claimed Florida for both his God and his country. As curious members of the indigenous Timucua tribe looked on, the 800 newly arrived colonists gathered around a makeshift altar as Father Lopez performed a Catholic Mass of thanksgiving for their safe arrival in the newly christened settlement of St. Augustine. At the invitation of Menéndez, the Timucuans then joined the newcomers in a comunal meal.
Some Florida historians have argued that this feast - and not the one held 56 years later by th ePilgrims and the Wampanoags in Plymouth, Massachusetts - was actualy North America?s First Thankgiving. It was the first community act of religion and thanksgiving in the first permanet settlement in the land", wrote University of Florida Professor Emmeritus of History Michael Gannon in his book The Cross in the Sand."
(https://www.history.com/news/did-florida-host-the-first-thanksgiving)
Now I'm thinking about my Christmas Tree, that we will put up again, as we always do, on the first day of December.
It is quite old, we bought it some twenty years ago and it begins to show its age but we like it so much that we are decided that it will be there, every Christmas, for some more years.
I know that in this corner of the world, where I live, it doesn't usually snows. In the North, yes, but not here.
I know that some years ago, a lot of them, it snowed here, after a very big discharge of hail. First it was fritening, and some hours after there it began snowing. How lovely it was.
But it was January, not December.
Anyway, we can dream, isn't it?
One thing that helps me to feel as if it snowed is to look at nice wintery and Christmassy scenes, so I will post here some for you to see too.
We really can feel that we are in those pre Christams days, wondering in the streets and window shopping.
Going home...
This is such an interesting advertising. We can learn History in old ads, we can study social and mental History by the way they dress, the houses, what they write, how they think but in this one we see all that and more, we see the end of the World War II.
It talks about how, for some time, it was advised not to travel but as the war ended, people could see crouds of men in the transports, ships, trains but also in buses going home. And it's here that this Company enters. They advertise how as in this new world they can provide a good service on the return to normality and help bring happiness to each home and family.
And above everything, in that Christmas children would be able to see their parents and wives would be able to see their husbands coming home - the ones that didn't die in the war, that is.
In this Christmas that is coming now, when life is getting harder, for several reasons, around the world, let's hope that every mother can hear their children, and every children can hear their fathers and every woman can hear their husbands saying:
I'll be home for Christmas !
I give thanks for being able to buy presents for my family. Thanks God.
That said, let's enjoy the process and the season.
How good it is to look for things, to do window shopping and admire the decorations.
To feel well in the spirit of the season, let's stroll by those wonderful times from the past shown in magazine covers and advertisement.
It was such an wonderful time.
I do feel really well watching those illustrations.
Let's go.
That's why I like so much to watch illustrations that show us those wonderful times. I approve the way people lived, the houses, the clothes, everything, including the first years of the decade of 60. In the middle of the decade things changed and I don't like it. But I know that even after it some people found a way to dress nicely.
Now just watch these scenes.
People nicely dressed, nice houses, a sence of security in the streets, people smiling and talking.
And I would like a bit of snow.