December 2, 2008 4:28 PM
Discovering Saint Nicholas
This is our first Advent/Christmas as a Catholic family and I am blessed beyond words that families are sending us feasts-in-a-box to help us remember and teach our children about the saints.
I remember last spring when I spoke at St. Andrew's looking at the statues of saints and weeping, thinking that as an evangelical I'd been robbed of so much church tradition and history. Why is is okay to have national heroes that we teach our children about, but somehow wrong to have spiritual heroes whose lives and teachings point us to J
Jesus?
Kinda deja-vuish. Just as 20 years ago as a new Christian I learned the Bible while teaching my children, today I am learning about the saints while teaching my younger children.
From Molly:
For anyone who hasn't discovered it yet, there are wonderful resources for celebrating the Feast of St. Nicholas at the St. Nicholas Center. Lots of activities, stories, poems, recipes, prayers, etc.
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Comments
I love the St. Nicholas center and use it for ideas for our St. Nicholas observance. My church has a an observance that I just love. (I'm Eastern Orthodox.)
Thanks for posting about this. :)
Posted by: Lucy | December 4, 2008 1:18 PM
