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St. Andrew’s Christmas Novena Begins November 30th!

Published on November 30, 2015November 30, 2017 by Dawn Marie6 Comments

I already mentioned (in an earlier post) that

I love the Advent Season of our liturgical calendar!!

One of my favorite practices is the participation in St. Andrew’s Christmas Novena. I have partaken in this practice for many, many, many years now and I love the ‘rhythmic timing’ being committed to this Novena adds to my prayer life during Advent. I have tender chapel bells set on my phone that go off each time I am to pray this lovely prayer and my heart swells each time they softly ring out.

I have chosen to reblog a WONDERFUL description of this Christmas Novena written by a splendid blogger, Gretchen Filz, where you will find ALL THE INFORMATION NECESSARY to partake in this beautiful prayer devotion. Gretchen is a convert to Catholicism who I am certain you will enjoy reading more about at her site!

Please let me know if you too adopt this prayer practice this Advent Season and be sure to share any blessings you receive as a result! Big or small a blessing is a blessing, after all!!

hugs n’ blessings and may chapel bells ring out in your heart!

November 30 is the feast day of St. Andrew the Apostle. St. Andrew was the very first disciple called by Our Lord, and he is the one who got his brother, St. Peter to come with him to meet the Messiah….(click on the link below to learn more about St. Andrew & this important novena.)

St. Andrew’s Christmas Novena Begins November 30th!

purple, purple, pink, purple!

Published on November 30, 2015February 8, 2017 by Dawn Marie4 Comments

Advent Disclaimer:I apologize as there was a problem with my publishing calendar yesterday. This post was scheduled to have gone out November 29th, which would have been my final publication in the NaBloPoMo Challenge! I hope you still find it worth reading…and I hope you remembered to light the correct candle without me!!

(remember: purple, purple, pink, purple!)

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I adore this time of our liturgical year: The Advent season!

In a world that is so distracted from God, in a culture and country that seem so anti-God, I enter Advent season this year with a praying heart. For Christians this is a season of expectant waiting. We are waiting on Christ. And when we wait for him, when we turn our eyes toward Him, the things of this earth grow small and dim. The Black Fridays & Cyber Mondays pale in comparison. We wait instead for the Gift that is greater than any this world could have ever dreamed!

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(And the only Doorbuster Deals we are anxious for is the one our Papa will bring to us, when he proclaims a Year of Mercy at the Holy Door in the atrium of St. Peter Basilica on December 8th! No snow globe give-away necessary, giggle-giggle…)

My Advent wish for you can be found in a beautiful poem I’d like to share as we enter into the Advent Season together. May you find a special hug & blessing tucked inside to wrap around your heart and carry with you these next four weeks!

Ann Voskamp is an author, a blogger, a farmer’s wife, a homemaker, and a homeschooling mother. She’s the author of the book The Greatest Gift, a slow, unwrapping of the Gift that is Christ, our Savior.

hugs n’ blessings and happy wrappings!

thanks-timber, it’s going down!

Published on November 26, 2015May 12, 2016 by Dawn Marie18 Comments

“Bippity-boppity-boo!

My thanks go out to you!

Your kind address,

of my blogging-mess,

brings happiness to my soul!”

And so begins my 3hugs&thankful blessings

to have received these additional Award recognitions

from three fellow bloggers!!

(I am blushing to have been recognized by each of you!)

When receiving an Award in cyber-world you are asked to do several things:

*Once you are nominated, make a post thanking and linking the person(s) who nominated you!
*Include the Award sticker in the post too and be sure to answer the questions from your nominator(s)!
*Nominate 5 -10 other bloggers who you feel are worthy of this award!
*Lastly, COPY these rules in the post.

Darling Anand at blabberwockying! who tickles my toes, with his expansive prose & ability to welcome everyone in. I thank him gleefully, for thinking of lil’ ol’ mee-a-lee, and accept this award quite cheerfully!

Sweet, Sweet Pam who is at catchingmydrift had not one but two surprise Awards for me! Well, twiddle my thumbs, I am certainly over-come, by her fuzzy-warm-support of thee!

Last but never least Oneta at sweetaroma conjured up a delightful treat! She sifted & spun, through various chosen-ones, and declared my blog-site REAL NEAT!

A sampling of their questions I choose to do, & to share with you too, as they asked me to do:

From Pam

1.What makes you smile? When I see my children happy.

2. What is your best talent? I am the Principal of Fun School!

3. Movies or Theatre? Movies.

From Oneta

What are 5 facts about you?

I am a devote Roman Catholic. I am a rule-follower. I am extremely loyal. I am afraid of very blustery wind-storms. My ability to be free from hate. I have never had this sense of emotion and I feel it is a great grace God has given to me. (This is not to be confused with anger…which is a feeling that if not addressed can lead to hatred.)

From Anand

What do you want people to remember most about you after meeting you for the first time? My warm welcome & sincere interest to listen as you speak.
What do you like most about yourself? My passion regarding who I love & what I believe to be true.
What song makes you sing along out loud and/or break into dance? There are three… When I’m With You by JJ Heller (my ring tone on the alarm clock,) Move by MercyMe and…promise not to judge me but…Timber! by Pit Bull (best dance song to date and you can dance too if you just click play!)