Friends in God:
I never thought I would be involved in a decision to "cancel Christmas", as stop-action Santa did in that old Rankin-Bass cartoon that I was raised on. But Portland and the immediate area has been flattened by this round of snowstorms with more on the way, and we better observe "tradition" by obeying the Christian tradition of taking care of people's safety and well-being and not asking them to come out in this hazardous weather.
Sunday December 28 will be Saints Peter and Paul's parish observance of the feast of Christmas. The Mass schedule will remain the same as at any Sunday--8, 9:30, and 12 Noon Spanish. The 9:30 AM Mass will be "Carols and High Mass of Christmas" with all the lovely music and liturgy we planned for Christmas Eve.
Christmas is indeed "a season, and not a day", and this year we get to live into that. The culture will have moved into post-Christmas sales and forgetting, but we will gather to break the living Bread of the Word and the Bread of Life, knowing that the living Word has come and taken flesh among us. And we have seen his glory.
And hey...let's be careful out there.
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