Weekend - snow, beauty and a Feast

Here in Ottawa I am on the old calendar

(as I have said before, I've been on both

and my only thing I can say is that I am sad

that we don't share all the feast days together).

Yesterday was

the Feast of the Theotokos' Entrance in the Temple

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Such a beautiful liturgy.

Our priest reminded us of how the Mother of God became

a Temple by becoming Christ's Mother,

and that she entered the Temple

and that Christ IS the temple;

three temples

and that St. Paul reminds us that we too are a temple of the Holy Spirit.

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I can only pray that I will learn to allow God

more of myself so that I too can

fulfill the calling of what it means to be really human;

to be a temple of the Holy Spirit glorifying God.

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As you can see from the above picture,

I had a good friend over for dinner;

the friend supplied the salmon and I the vegetables

and tea.

It felt very festive to celebrate the feast with a good meal.

A friend gave me these French (Lenten!) biscuits,

they are so cute!

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It snowed again tonight,

big swirling flakes.

I had quite the adventure carting home a big bag of baking flour

(so much cheaper to buy in bulk).

I made Dutch Spice Cookies to give away as

thank you gifts for those helping me

with my job search.

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I am really happy with my hair cut and returned some

unneeded stuff and in turn used the money

to get some good foundation.

Feels good to be resourceful ! :)

So all I need for networking this week is set.

I have an important networking meeting tomorrow

to help me with my Friday interview.

Please if you could say a prayer for this,

I would really appreciate it.

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God is so good to us.