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December 20 , 2021-December 26, 2021

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Living Christmas 2021

Several years ago when I lived in Massachusetts and worked at St. Patrick’s manor, my wife and I both stayed home and missed going to Xmas stuff because we both had the flu. This year after our big move to Rhode Island, Kristin is staying home and missing Mass and Christmas at her parents due to her having… some sickness type feelings. Not Covid. She took a home test which she think she messed up and a rapid test at a pharmacy where we played $35.00 to find, Yup she didn’t have the dreaded disease that has been shutting everything down.

So as I went to midnight mass at our church at 11:00 PM and she went to bed. Our church ceremony in the very beginning was very solemn and beautiful with Oh Holy Night being sung by the choir in a darken church. Was sad she couldn’t be there for it. Before I went off to mass we exchanged gifts, talked to our friend Jackson and eat overpriced chinese food. I got her a statue of her most prayed to saint next to the Virgin Mary, St. Anthony holding the infant Jesus and the bible. She got a stocking with a Carmel Apple and Recesses and stuff she already owned as a joke which she didn’t find funny. I also gave her a book she had been looking for called…

Kristin is becoming an independent Spiritual Director without a degree, as they cost too much. Find out more here. She originally told me not to go downstairs when we came home from Mass and I retired to my second floor abode. This is when she was originally going to do stuff. For various reasons we sleep in separate rooms. I did go upstairs as she set up my present. It ended up being a trail of stuff pointing to something big and grand. I wanted her just to write stuff for The Catholic Bard and read my articles but she got me somethings. The trail consisted in Fruit Pastels, Necco Wafers, and York Peppermint Patties. Candy I love. I came upon a piece of paper that I picked and put on the counter. She stopped me and asked why I didn’t look at it. It was for a hotel room in May of next year. I then became very curious of what it might be. Next I came upon a weighted blanket that she had bought me. It’s supposed to help you sleep. The verdict is still out on it. I then came upon my grand present which was a piece of paper detailing what the hotel booking was for. It was for something that I had actually wanted to do since, well for a long time. She got tickets to a concert of an artist I have loved since I was a kid. For some reason I never went to see him in concert. But now I will, God Willing see…

This is a been a long time coming. So we are spending part of the day together before I head into work for a few hours. Well actually she is resting while I type up this section of The Last Week in Life. But perhaps I should go downstairs and watch something on Roku with her. Maybe something Christmassy. I signed up for HBO Max so we could watch this movie together.

It was a worthwhile movie to watch. While I have HBO Max, I will probably watch the new Matrix. I would have signed up for the service just to watch that if I didn’t come across reviews like this.

Well time to spend some time with her before I head off to work at the nursing home. I originally had the whole day off, but there’s a shortage of people so I volunteered to come in.

From all of us at the Catholic Bard, Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

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Monday December 20, 2021

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1860 – South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
1946 – The popular Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
1968 – The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
1985 – Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
2004 – A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history.
2007 – Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years and 243 days.
2007 – The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
2019 – The United States Space Force becomes the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947.

Tuesday December 21, 2021

Saint Peter Canisius, priest and doctor of the Church – Optional Memorial

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1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1879 – World premiere of Henrik Ibsen‘s A Doll’s House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1883 – The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.
1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
2020 – A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623

Wednesday December 22, 2021

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401 – Pope Innocent I is elected, the only pope to succeed his father in the office.
1216 – Pope Honorius III approves the Dominican Order through the papal bull of confirmation Religiosam vitam.
1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).
1851 – India’s first freight train is operated in Roorkee, to transport material for the construction of the Ganges Canal.
1851 – The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns.
1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
2010 – The repeal of the Don’t ask, don’t tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
2016 – A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70 and 100% effective, thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.
2017 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved.

Thursday December 23, 2021

Saint John of Kanty, priest – Optional Memorial

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1783 – George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
1815 – The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.
1893 – The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
1919 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
1955 – The first film adaptation of Väinö Linna‘s novel The Unknown Soldier, directed by Edvin Laine, was premiered in first-time

Friday December 24, 2021

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Saturday December 25, 2021

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Sunday December 26, 2021

Saint Stephen, the first martyr – Feast

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December 26, 2021 is the 1st day of Kwanzaa.

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1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
1862 – The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, where 38 Native Americans died.^[5]
1871 – Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.
1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1963 – The Beatles‘ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “I Saw Her Standing There” are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

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