{"id":8215,"date":"2016-12-22T21:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T05:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2016-12-22T21:09:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T05:09:47","slug":"7-quick-takes-the-holidays-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8215","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: The Holidays Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah&#8230; no.<\/strong>  A friend of mine posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magatsu.net\/maritaltest\/index.php\">a 1930&#8217;s marital test<\/a> on Facebook.  Let&#8217;s just say that I would not have been good housewife material then and I&#8217;m quite OK with that!<\/p>\n<p>My score: a -3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prerequisite sacred music take.<\/strong> We&#8217;re doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwpepper.com\/8050288.item#.WFyl6_krLDc\">this<\/a> for Christmas Eve and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwpepper.com\/What-Can-I-Give-Him\/3215704.item#.WFx1dvkrLDd\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwpepper.com\/3303201.item#.WFylN_krLDc\">this<\/a> in the next few weeks.  I&#8217;m excited!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>O Antiphons.<\/strong>  As part of my parish&#8217;s Advent Game, I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/prayer-and-worship\/prayers-and-devotions\/prayers\/the-o-antiphons-of-advent.cfm\">the O antiphons on the USCCB page<\/a> for the last few days.  They&#8217;ve been good but I think I might just read verses of &#8220;O Come Emmanuel&#8221; next year as they touch on the same things and I can actually sing them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Festivus.<\/strong>  I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/features\/popculture\/festivus-2016-air-your-grievances-here\/2306908\">submitted my grievances for Festivus<\/a> tomorrow.  Have you?<\/p>\n<p>Also, go google &#8220;Festivus&#8221; and see what you get for the results page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the better ways to celebrate Christmas Eve.<\/strong>  This may be what I do after church on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/icelandbooks.png\" alt=\"Happy Christmas Book Flood!\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plans.<\/strong>  We&#8217;re having a family dinner at my cousin&#8217;s house tomorrow.  On Saturday, we&#8217;ll have my uncle and grandmother over for dinner and I have church in the evening.  On Christmas morning, my uncle and aunt (and possibly grandmother) will join us to open presents and we&#8217;ll spend the day together.  We&#8217;ll miss my brother and his wife but they&#8217;ll be with her family in Arizona.  (We get them for Thanksgiving.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelly.<\/strong>  Our intrepid hostess Kelly is answering questions about hosting orphans this Christmas through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectonefortythree.org\/\">Project 143<\/a>.  Go surf on over and <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\/sqt-hosting-update-part-two\/\">read what she has to say<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; Yeah&#8230; no. 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