The last days of Advent are upon us. Tomorrow I will post the first of nine sequential meditations focused on the "O" Antiphons that come into use during the last days of Advent. Tomorrow's post will contain an explanation of what they are, the first antiphon is chanted on 17 December, the final on 23 December.
Each will be posted either late the night before or very early the morning of depending on circumstances. All meditations are arranged the same way (the first has no antiphon the other eight do) with the antiphon in Latin and English, a meditation or reflection on it, a photo, a lagniappe, (New Orleans speak for something extra), in this case an html for a YouTube video of, and a prayer from a variety of sources, two of which I only recently discovered.
The photos below are the chapel the three of us in the satellite community have put together. The altar, a table, was originally 30 inches high and very difficult to venerate before and after Mass. It was also difficult to see the missal resting on it, especially for the senior member of the community. Bed raisers that added eight inches made it about the height of a typical altar in church and everything became easy, including seeing.
The poinsettias were a gift from Al and Karen Stewart (who supplied VERY specific instructions for their care as my history with plants is grim). Al and I met our first day at Penn State in 1968. I met Karen a few weeks later. We've been friends ever since.
Last thing. There are thirty unique emails on the listserv for the Mass on Christmas Eve. It will begin on Zoom at 7:30 PM from the chapel in the photos. The Zoom platform can handle
100. Will send out the Zoom instructions and the html to sign on around 22 or 23 December.
The view of our house chapel through the partially closed doors to the sun porch. Taken from the dining room. All of the photos were over two seconds long. Camera mounted on a tripod.
+Fr. Jack, SJ, MD
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