Nochebuena/Christmas Eve 2020 (Year B) + 12.24.20
M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Isaiah 9:2-7 ; (Ps. 96; Titus 2:11-14 ); Luke (1:26-38; 2:1-20) The first thing I have to share tonight is that our dog tried to eat Christmas! ¡Nuestra perra trataba de comer la Navidad! Well, not literally, but let me tell you. One night early in Advent I left the Advent Wreath on the dining table, along with our butter dish with butter on it. And on the Advent Wreath was perched the smallest nativity, made out of a large enameled nut shell from Latin America. Yo dej é un plato que contenía mantequilla en mi mesa por error al lado de mi corona de adviento que también tenía un pequeño nacimiento de América Latina hecho de una cascara pintada. I got up in the morning and it was a disaster. The dog had carefully coaxed the butter dish onto the chair and licked almost a whole stick of butter up. Not so bad, really, as long as her system could handle it. La perra había comido toda la mantequilla muy cuidadosamente, no quebra...