I’m afraid I haven’t had much time for blogging lately, but December 6th is just around the corner and since St. Nicholas’ day is unquestionably my favorite minor holiday, I wanted to remind everyone.
In my family, wooden shoes get set by the door before bed on the 5th with a small treat for St. Nicholas’ horse. ”St. Nicholas,” living out God’s generosity and grace in a joyful and tangible way ensures that they are filled with goodies when the house wakes up the next morning.
This year, for the first time in my ministry, I’ll be using St. Nicholas feast-day readings for the sermon on Sunday morning. It seems to me that we do well emulate those who came before us and provided excellent examples of what it means to be faithful.
If you’re unfamiliar with St. Nicholas, Let me STRONGLY encourage you to check out the St. Nicholas Center at:
http://www.stnicholascenter.org/
There’s also a wonderful (albeit rather old) DVD out called “Nicholas, the Boy who became Santa” that I’d recommend. Our current copy is in Spanish (although language options on the DVD enable us to play it in English) – we picked it up at Walmart for about $4. You can pick up a copy here, if you can’t find it anywhere else.
Grace and peace,
`tim
