Christmas Wigilia

Wigilia [reading the first few paragraphs that emphasis the Wigilia ceremony]



"Learn to turn to each person as the most sacred
person on Earth, to each moment as the most
sacred moment that has ever been given to us. This
moment may never happen again, because no two
moments are every alike. Are we perhaps awake a bit
more, perhaps breathing together with God?"

~ Reshad Felid


"Blessed are we who can laugh
at ourselves
for we shall never cease
to be amused"

- from "A Grateful Heart" edited by M.J. Ryan
given by Mia & Bill {Christmas 1998}



"Lord make me an instrument of Your peace.
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where this is doubt, faith;
where there is darkness, light;
and where this is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not
so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love,
For it is giving that we receive,
it is pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to
eternal life."

- St Francis of Assisi