Annunciation ~ 2014

Mr. Husband and I were at church 

Monday morning for the Feast of the Annunciation.

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The night before I was with one of the church's young ones

and tell this child how the Annunciation had to come first...

how the Virgin Mary saying YES to God

is how CHRISTMAS came to us.... 

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Our church, like many Orthodox churches,

has a basket of Christian kids books for 

kids to read and our basket includes many that are on

Christmas and Christ's birth...

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The child I was talking to picked some of these

and it was quite something, how all of them

actually started with the Annunciation,

with the Archangel Gabriel coming to the Virgin Mary

to tell her of how she can be overshadowed by God

and given birth to Christ...

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I told many of the children that day that in 9 months,

Christmas will come,

just like it takes, normally, 9 months for a baby to be born...

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Many woman and children were in church,

it was really beautiful.

The homily was in part about the Theotokos and how she 

made a peaceful loving home for her Holy Family...

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The vision of this home, of always being a place of prayer,

of peace, harmony and love,

stayed with me and I really hope that with

Holy Theotokos' help,

that I can make a home that gives unity and harmony,

love, peace, centred on Christ... 

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It was a beautiful and busy day...

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Mr. Husband went from there back towards home and

had the inspection of our future home...

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We went out for dinner for fish afterwards 

and then back to our soon-to-not-be-our home...

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We are not going to do anything in 

terms of packing until 

after Pascha 

but then, it will all ensue very quickly...