Dear Diary,
It was a very good Christmas celebration. Things seemed to flow alon Well, except for the fire in the
sacristy. But that wasn’t all that
bad. We only lost a trashcan, some
towels, and part of a sink is now singed black but what do you expect when you
have a vocation that involves fire? A
fire once every 80 years is not so bad.
g fairly well this year.

A very generous parishioner made a champagne breakfast for
priests, seminarians, and some of family who came to midnight Mass. Back when I was in the theater I used to
dream about opening a show and staying up with just such a breakfast in order
to be awake when the first edition of the paper came out with the review of the
show in it. Well, now that such a thing
doesn’t really exist anymore, this is now the best thing going.
It also helped keep me awake even longer since I had to lock
up the church after everybody left.
Fortunately the alarms (which I do not know how to control) were set to
go off at 3AM so there was the excuse to get stragglers out of the church.
Three hours later we were up and getting ready for Christmas
Day. Three hours or no three hours,
Sebastian was insistent on his walk all the same. What a beautiful morning it was. Still dark because of the clouds, we had the
park to ourselves. It was a little bit
of quiet before the day really started taking off.

There were still people in Church around 3:00. “You can still get out,” I told them, “but
you can’t get back in.” This is important
to know. Don’t forget anything. I could open up a small department store (or
at least a five and ten) with the stuff left over from Christmas including 5
purses. (How do you forget your purse???)
Finally joining family, we had a nice meal after which I
took a nap. ZZZZZZZZZ Of course, I was then refreshed and ready to
go while everyone else was getting ready to go to bed. We still had to open presents and then I went
home to play with mine while everyone else was tucked in beds with visions of
Christmas dancing in their heads.
What a glorious celebration.
Thank you God. Happy Birthday.
1 comment:
Love it! It's nice to hear what goes on behind the scenes.
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