Darla wrote:
Sis, except for the tree being part of the idolization Christmas, much of what you wrote is also our thought/practice .... delaying the festive part of Christmas until Christmas day and after. Right now, we're preparing to celebrate His incarnation -- waiting, watching. We put out all our creches without the baby Jesus in them. Our countdown is a figurine of Mary moving day by day closer to the creche (she moves to a new cut-out star for each day, the star for the previous day goes up onto the "sky" background behind the creche so even the sky is preparing ... filling with stars in anticipation of the Christmas star which goes up Christmas eve before we head to the midnight service). We did put up Christmas lights last weekend because we time that with the celebration of St. Lucia's feast day, (a "saint of light"). It's also a preparatory activity. Anyway, just found your comments/practices interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Oh, love that!
Why Mary, tho'? It was the wise men that followed the star. ??
Don't you suppose there was quite the entourage with the wise men? We're never told how many wise men there were, of course.
I would like "extended" pieces to the creche that included a young toddler and a modest home where the wise men would find Jesus.
If I were more artistic I'd try my hand at a bread dough set. I had a friend once that was amazing with bread dough "sculptures".
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