Merry Christmas!
Ben on Christmas day, reading Sherlock Holmes with his new pipe. He is all dressed up for the evening 5 o'clock English Catholic service that we went to with a friend of ours. The German priest had just finished a Vietnamese service and jumped right into an English one. His sermon wavered between why do people need a God that needs them and God's love for people. I think I missed the conclusion. The best part was communion. The priest had only one acolyte to help him pass the wafers and so the two large chalices of wine lay untouched on the altar. Then he realized the wine was still there and gave some to the acolyte before chugging the rest of the two chalices himself. The rest of the service went off quite smoothly, especially for the priest! The Christmas service really was nice and thankfully not like the fire-hazard, painfully overcrowded midnight mass the night before.