Happy Thanksgiving

One of my favourite illustrations of Thanksgiving

I'm not American or Canadian so I don't do Thanksgiving, except in my heart, because many years ago, my husband, who lived in America for some years, wanted to invite me to have luch with him and decided to make Thanksgiving lunch just to invite me.

Less than a year after we were married.

So I do like Thanksgiving.

And now to the First Thanksgiving.

"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 the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags in Plymouth, Massachusetts - was actually North America's First Thanksgiving. It was the first community act of religion and thanksgiving in the first permanent settlement in the land", wrote University of Florida Professor Emmeritus of History Michael Gannon in his book The Cross in the Sand".

(https://myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/article/140)

Anyway, have your turkey with your family and have a happy Thanksgiving.

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal - 27 November

 

https://www.chapellenotredamedelamedaillemiraculeuse.com/langues/english/apparitions-et-la-medaille-miraculeuse-gb/

Did you begin wrapping ?

So I've been all happy shopping for Christmas. 

One thing that I remind you, dear reader, is to be careful with the wrapping or you will find yourself in the days before Christmas panicking because you didn't wrapp enough presents - or any of them.

Don't do that. If you have the strength, wrapp at least one or two, or three presents a day, avoid big sessions, unless you have the time for it.

On saturdays in the afternoon I try to wrapp for one or two hours and then stop, or I will  be very tired and the pleasure of this activity will go off.

Please, please, do some wrapping now while is not too late. You will be so pleased with yourself if you have control on it and in the days before Christmas you look back and see how much you did and that you may breathe with relief.

Do it, ok?

I bought some new wrapping papers. I still have lots of the previous Christmas but I can't avoid buying some more every year. 😃

Now I can't but as soon as I can I will post about me wrapping and my Christmas papers.

Oh this blessed time. We give thanks.

Have you got everything you need for Christmas?

 

Have you got eveything you need for Christmas? Food, ingredients, last things ?

Christmas is quickly arriving, we have only 33 days till Christmas. What? 33 days?😲

So let's think.

• Have you the list with names of people you want to give presents?
• What do you want to give to that people?
• Is already bought? 
• If not when will you buy?
• When will you wrap the presents?
• What about the food, do you know what you will make for Christmas?
• When will you buy the ingredients?

Now seat down and think on those questions. Take a paper or a notebook, even better, and write the answers to those questions. Plan and plan. And then do it. Do something. Do at least one thing. And tomorrow do another thing. With a happy heart. Don't be anxious, just think, plan and act. Begin now, you still have time. But don't dilly dally, just do something everyday.

Missing England

Something in me really likes England. I must say that there is not just one England, there's plenty to each one's taste.

My England belongs to years past, even if I truly like the present one, the roofs, the streets, the houses, all the landscape is a bit of Heaven.

Today I will post some pictures of everyday's England.

Just some eye candy. 😉

Are we there yet?

Christmas Day

Almost there !! Just 40 days till Christmas.

May Our Lord gives us a happy and peaceful time in our homnes and hearts in this joyfull season, all the way till Christmas.

Remembrance Day

My great grandfather was there too.

He is the father of my mother's mother.

Thanks God he came home but so many didn't.

The war is going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the pontificate of Pius Xl. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. 

- Our Lady in Fatima, 13.July.1917

And so it was, that war ended and some years later a worse one came.

It's raining and raining

It has been raining a lot, with days of interval, but yesterday it was too much with thunder and all.

Sometimes is the worry that it can rain too much on our way to Mass or back,

and then we arrive at home all soaked, being it that we came from church or work.

Sometimes it's just that we can't do our laudry properly.

But never mind, it's the time for the rain and we must thank God for it.

How many days till Christmas

Days till Christmas

We can say that truly there are 49 days to Christmas because we don't count today neither the 25 of December. 

Don't forget to plan so things will run smoodly.

• - How many more presents do you need  to buy?
• - To whom are those presents?
• - Think of everybody that you want to give a present(s)
• - Make a list with the names and what you bought for them
• - The ones you dind't buy yet, you need to see if you know their sizes 
• - What about money? Are you spending too  much?
• - And the food that you will have, it's already bought? when will you buy it?
• - What about the clothes that you will wear and what you will use on the table?

All those things need to be thought and written. Think and write. Plan so you will be calm in all this time.

If you do Thanksgivining make plans also for it: what you need to buy for the lunch of the day and what you need to do before.

Everything thought and planned so you will be calm.

And we carry on in this beautiful time

Oh I like so much Christmas and the days before. And by days before I mean the months starting on the final days of October, officially, and non officially in September. That is, in my mind I begin thinking of Christmas, of presents to buy, on all the good things that come with the wonderful season.

This year it has been of the Will of God that we have a serious health problem, not in my house but with someone of my family. It's difficul to endure but we must accept it and I make all the effort I can to carry on living and savouring the beauty of this time: Autumn and Winter and the preparations for Christmas.

Our Lord never leaves us alone so we carry on living and trying every day to be happy.

Getting cooler

It's now begging to get cold. Cold for our standars but truly it was rather warm for weeks and it was not time for that, so thanks God now it's gwtting a little cold.

Yesterday I didn't bring a coat yet because I thought it would be one more day of no Autumn - other than the deluge, as it rained so much. But in the late afternoon I began feeling that it would have been a good idea if I had brought one.

So, today I didn't risk and wore one. That felt so good, the coziness of the coat, the conscience that yes, we are in Autumn gave such a comfort to my sore soul. I am at a time of the year that I like so much and brings me happiness but life is not easy is some aspects, being rather painful sometimes, so that little pleasure was so good.

Let's hope that the Autumn is here for real.