From Christmas Eve, yesterday December 24th, 2025.
I got this book on St Catherine's Monastery cheap at the Ohio bookstore. On the Eve of St Nicholas Day (December 19 so on December 18th).
I have been reading Fr Justin's blog, some older entries. So consoling. I have long loved this Monastery, though I don't know that I will ever be able to visit.
We had a lovely fillet of salmon the way I have always made it, since about 2003 (?). My librarian friend Mary gave me the recipe. I love it because the salmon, being baked in foil with olive oil, lemon and onion, is very moist and tender. I made it first when my parents came to my graduation in BC Canada.
While we will celebrate Christmas on January 7th, we went to Christmas liturgy locally today. Christmas is such a powerful time. But also a time when loss is felt deeply. I am no exception. I have had some deep losses that are irretrievable, as it were. I can't talk about them beyond this because other people's stories are involved. So not mine to tell. But the loss is real. And both in more recent times.
So I am trying to look closely at what I have not lost, what blessings I clearly do have and just keep going.
I think that is the hardest part, just trying to pick up the pieces and rebuild my life.
May God help us and have mercy.
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