Card Writing Day and St. Nicholas Day
Yesterday we had an "Advent Ritual: Card Writing Day". All gathered in the morning with their address books, boxes of cards and the Spiritual Center provided a prayerful environment with soft Christmas music, candy canes, and we began the day with Ed Hayes' Christmas Card Psalm (follow this think: A Christmas Card Psalm), and then moved to the real meat of the day--the actual card writing. Sr. Marie Angela Presenza prepared the day for us reminding us that writing cards is a prayer of remembering and a prayer of celebrating. Scripture tells us "where two or three are gathered together, there I am". We gathered and felt the power of our togetherness. Except for a break for lunch and an afternoon break for tea, you could hear a pin drop. It was a blessed event. We'll meet again next year -- same place, same time, same purpose!
Today is the feast of St. Nicholas. I don't know about you but St. Nicholas did stop by my door last night and it was a glorious surprise awaiting me this morning. May you be St. Nicholas for someone today! I could do no better than Ed Hayes at telling you the significance of this day so I repeat his words adapted from Edward Hays' "The Pay-less Shoe Gift Shop" by Brian Cavanaugh" in Ed Hays book A Piligrim's Almanac: Reflections for Each Day of the Year (Forest of Peace Publishing, 1989, 190-191.)
It is fitting that the feast of St. Nicholas comes at the beginning of Advent and the beginning of the shopper's season. As the patron saint of shoppers he proclaims, "Keep it simple!" Keep it simple enough to fit in a shoe or a stocking. One gift that could fit in a ... shoe, or in a stocking hanging on the fireplace, is a note that speaks of one of our most precious gifts, the gift of time. Such a St. Nicholas note might read: "The gift I give to you is half an hour of quality conversation each night right after the dishes are done." Or, "The gift I give to you is one Saturday a month to be with you and do whatever you want to do." .... The possibilities are almost unlimited for these St. Nicholas shoe gifts.
Come, St. Nicholas, patron of shoppers and gift-seekers, and make Christmas this year fun, creative and love-filled.
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