http://www.conceptionabbey.org/ and then scrolling down to the bottom of the screen on the left you will see items listed, click on the one "video of Christmas at Conception." I think you will enjoy it.
And I pray you all had a beautiful and blessed Christmas. You know the feast continues for the Church until the feast of the Baptism of the Lord on January 11, 2009. So while the business world can hardly wait to begin Christmas already in October or early November, the Church does not start celebrating until December 25 and then continues until the feast of the Baptism.
We have had an unusual winter so far this year. We get ice, snow, sleet and then it gets warm and after a few days begins all over again. For Christmas itself our parking lot in front of the basilica was a sheet of ice. We did try to treat it and made it a little more passable. The Basilica was actually pretty well filled for midnight Mass. Last Friday we had temperatures up into the lower 60's so all the ice and snow disappeared. Friday night and into Saturday morning it rained, then changed to freezing rain and finally had some sleet and snow. So everything was slick again. Today it is supposed to get up to around 50 degrees.
Brother Pachomius was finally able to make it home yesterday. He is in his 4th year of theology at Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon. Portland had some big snows in the last week or so. So, while he was scheduled to fly home last Sunday, he was not able to leave until yesterday, December 26. It seems that almost all flights out of Portland were cancelled because of the snow.
In closing I just want to say: HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you.
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