Celebrating St. Nicholas’s feast day has always been a favorite tradition in our home. The kids write their letters to St. Nicholas (and Baby Jesus! – this year both the little girls wrote they are especially praying for Uncle Scott’s soul ❤️) . They tuck their letters into their slippers and wake up to find them replaced with treats – new books, candy coins, gold coins, and a few fun surprises. It’s a simple tradition but such a special one which they always look forward to each Advent.
This year we were down to just five at home, and that number is probably going to drop again next year, but it’s so heartwarming to see how our adult children continue to celebrate this special feast. Our family text string was filled with pictures from a beautiful Rorate Mass at Thomas Aquinas College down in California 😍 , crazy young men sledding in North Dakota 😳, and four pairs of men’s shoes (second son and two friends visiting our oldest right now) in front of a TV screen fire in a small apartment in Arizona filled with cans of Guinness, bananas and chocolate coins. 😂
I hope you all had a blessed feast day however you celebrated!
O good St. Nicholas, you who are the joy of the children, put in my heart the spirit of childhood, which the Gospel speaks, and teach me to seed happiness around me.
You, whose feast prepares us for Christmas, open my faith to the mystery of God-made man. You, good bishop and shepherd, help me to find my place in the Church and inspire the Church to be faithful to the Gospel.
O good Saint Nicholas, patron of children, sailors, and the helpless, watch over those who pray to Jesus, your Lord and theirs, as well as over those who humble themselves before you.
Links to this year’s new books can be found here, this year’s new puzzle here, and the darling St. Lucia Buns!
The little girls also discovered a couple Christmas sweaters and place settings in the kitchen near some more fun seasonal donuts from Krispy Kreme. (We’ve started saving the Cherry Cheese Candy Cane Coffee Cake for Christmas when more of the kids are home.)
Bring us all in reverence to the Holy Child of Bethlehem, where true joy and peace are found. Amen.
“The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic God’s giving, by grace, through faith, and this is not of ourselves.“
St. Nicholas, ora pro nobis!
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