Christmas Tree
Dec. 3rd, 2004 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI think I'll get the Christmas tree out of its box.
It doesn't seem long since I last put it away. Hell- they don't make years as long as they used to.
It looks like it's going to be twilight all day long and I feel the need for sparkly things.
In the film I watched yesterday these Polish people were going to Midnight Mass. How comforting to be a Catholic in a Catholic country! To feel the sparkle as something not merely applied but as a deep, deep thing that wraps you round.
I've been asking myself what- if anything- I'm celebrating this year. And the answer is I don't really know and I don't think it matters. Christmas is older than any religion.
The world is full of snow and wolves but we have fire.
Throw on another log. Watch the sparks fly.
It doesn't seem long since I last put it away. Hell- they don't make years as long as they used to.
It looks like it's going to be twilight all day long and I feel the need for sparkly things.
In the film I watched yesterday these Polish people were going to Midnight Mass. How comforting to be a Catholic in a Catholic country! To feel the sparkle as something not merely applied but as a deep, deep thing that wraps you round.
I've been asking myself what- if anything- I'm celebrating this year. And the answer is I don't really know and I don't think it matters. Christmas is older than any religion.
The world is full of snow and wolves but we have fire.
Throw on another log. Watch the sparks fly.
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Date: 2004-12-04 06:34 pm (UTC)You are so wonderful! And your Christmas tree looks good. We still don't have one. I don't really care too much for it, but Mother think it is a cardinal sin to not have a tree before the end of the first week of December, so I suppose I am going to go and find one before she has a coronary.
It is strange to be a Catholic and go to mass to see all the symbols of the old religion in a cathedral. People have no idea. It's amazing. But that's what makes the Catholic faith so much cooler than other Christian deviations. We are fully ornamental and beautiful and we have no shame about being total pagans.
It's fun.