Altar Server Training - Traditional Latin Mass

These are from last school year, but they still make me smile :)

He was barefoot the whole time.

;)

Liturgical Seasons Sale - 10% OFF

Liturgical Seasons 10% off sale at Garden of Francis

A bit of a sale between now and December 31st (ends at New Year's EST).

10% off all items in the liturgical season categories of Garden of Francis. This includes such items as the following:

• cosmic cross puzzles
• Christmas season version of the Jesse Tree ornaments
• Jesse Tree ornaments (Advent)
• Jesus Tree ornaments (Lent)
• Easter season version of the Jesus Tree 
• season-appropriate prayer table cloths, made to the size needed, with or without lace
• MUCH MORE! 

Anything with a Christmas season item will be upgraded for free to rush order shipment, so that you might enjoy those items during Christmas THIS year. All other orders (and the non-Christmas components of large orders) will ship in the order orders were placed, over the next 2-3 weeks. 

God bless!

This item is not on sale, but is SO beautiful, I am advertising it anyway ;)

Quick Notes on the Bible Mini-Series

My son and I just today sat down with a bowl of popcorn and Netflix Streaming to watch the Bible Mini-Series that we have heard many good things on. Yes, we heard that a few little things were slightly off, but we figured we wouldn't let that bother us.

My 10 year old saw and verbally noted the following things that annoyed him in the first half (not even a full half!) of the first episode - and when our internet momentarily dropped and I started to refresh the page, he said, "perhaps we can just watch something else. Artistic liberty should NOT CONTRADICT the Bible in a show ABOUT the Bible!"

• the ark would not have leaked - covered inside and out with pitch (tar)
• it likely didn't rock very much - think cruise ships
• no sunlight entering (God sealed them in)
• could not have walked on the deck (God sealed them in)
• Abraham/Abram was called earlier in life - events re: Egypt and his wife being so beautiful as to be brought in with the concubines of Pharaoh - making all his wives infertile until he released her)
• God changed their names after they had been traveling a while - so should have said Abram, instead of Abraham when God first called him
• Abram/Abraham gave Lot the choice of direction
• artistic liberty is great as long as it doesn't CONTRADICT the text: the wives did not act like that - Lot's wife isn't recorded as saying much; Abram's wife didn't hate Ishmael until Isaac was weaned (at age 3) - the dates are off in all of that too

If this is a person's only exposure to the Bible - let's at least be accurate. Visual impressions are strong and lasting. 

I am not sure we'll come back to this.... 

St. Nicholas Rocks :)