Why? To take down Christmas at Ma LSP's. All those glass ornaments, many like old friends. Down they go, to retrain for next year.
While we're at it, you may remember the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan. Surely it should've been the other way around and the Baptizer says as much, "I should be baptized by you." Jesus was, notoriously, without sin. So how are we to make sense of this fulfillment of "all righteousness." Perhaps this helps.
Our Lord, true God and true Man, like in every way as we are yet without sin, took the sins of humanity on his sinless shoulders upon the Cross in obedience to the Father's will. Here we find an analogue to Christ's baptism, and he says as much, referring to his Passion and Crucifixion later on in the Gospel account, "Are you able to be baptized with the baptism I am to be baptized with?"
Jordan River,
God bless,
LSP
Our tree has a few ornaments from my mom's parents. We also have a couple dozen ornaments from my parent's collection that we obtained after their passing. Something similar will occur with the wife's family.
ReplyDeleteThese older family ornaments will get split among our kids. I hope they last into other generations, God willing.
"notoriously without sin"
ReplyDeleteNever thought about it like that. But presumably the Pharisees did.....
Mrs. had an extensive collection of Hallmark ornaments, to which she added every year. Then Hallmark went woke, and that was the end of that.
When to take down the tree and pack everything away for another year? After the epiphany or before??
ReplyDeleteAfter the Epiphany, LL, most definitely.
ReplyDeleteMr. Wild, there are no woke ornaments in this house.
ReplyDeleteRight on, DOS.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what'll happen with this lot, and there are a lot. They made the tree shine like a jewel.
It's a bit of an ordeal, taking all the Christmas stuff down. And I always think, do it carefully, take the time. You'll thank yourself next year when you're already half-frazzled from the season's merriment.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's KLF.
Look! There are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!
ReplyDeleteTheophany.
Blessings
Juliette, all those decorations, I remember them as a child, it's no small thing. And yes, don't barge in like some kind of... something.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, the KLF.
Time, they say, is eternal. Let's hear it for MU?