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The Sons of Divine Providence Winter 2019 THE The Sons of Divine Providence Winter 2019 Special Topic: The construction of a new church in Kiev Fr Philip Kehoe Coordinator Contents: 2Front cover - Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) here is a great deal of anxiety and stress in our world at Fr Philip Kehoe – Coordinator 2 the moment. Indeed it is History of The Christmas Card 4 T often claimed that these are the Pope Francis 6 two biggest contributors to sick Pilgramage 10 leave from work. The lead up to Christmas History 12 Christmas can also be stressful, but it also has its benefits. There is no Philippines 18 doubt that changing your routine Saints For Our Times 20 helps. Putting up and decorating a Ukraine 22 tree can be soothing and relaxing, All Saints Rome 24 when you sit back and look at your handy work. Buying and eating Kenya 26 food that we don’t normally have Christmas Carols 28 gives us a boost, even though many are running to the gym after Christmas. Caring for others and thinking about them automatically makes us feel better. Being selfish with our time, money and energy is self defeating and makes us feel less than we are. So you could say Christmas is good for you! And that’s only the physical aspect of it. When you add in the spiritual it really does have a powerful effect. The spirit of Christmas makes us more tolerant, more loving, more forgiving and more generous. These are all good values, or we could have a slip of the keyboard and say… God values! For Christians it is no doubt a spiritual time as well as the trappings that go with it. So three cheers for Christmas- Christ’s Mass-the birth of our Saviour! The days are already getting longer and a new year is about to begin, our journey continues and blessings will surely be included. H A P P Y C H R I S T M A S 3 The History of the Christmas Card he custom of sending Christmas with the slogan: “Just published, a cards was started in the United Christmas Congratulations Card; TKingdom in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole. or picture emblematical of old He was a senior civil servant who English festivity to perpetuate kind had helped set-up the new ‘Public recollections between dear friends”! Record Office’ (now called the Post The first postal service that ordinary Office), where he was an Assistant people could use was started in Keeper, and wondered how it could 1840 when the first ‘Penny Post’ public be used more by ordinary people. postal deliveries began (Sir Henry Cole helped to introduce the Penny Sir Henry Cole had the idea of Post). Before that, only very rich Christmas Cards with his friend John Horsley, who was an artist and used to paint the drawings. They designed the first cards and sold them for 1 shilling each. That was expensive in those days because a shilling (5 pence) was worth much more than it is today. The card had three panels. The outer two panels showed people caring for the poor and in the centre panel was a family having a large Christmas dinner! Some people didn’t like the card because it showed a child being given a glass of wine! About 1000 were printed and sold. They are now very rare and like works of art have increased in value over the years, originals now selling at thousands of pounds. The original cards were advertised 4 The History of the Christmas Card people could afford to send anything in the post. The new Post Office was able to offer a Penny stamp because new railways were being built. These could carry much more post than the horse and carriage that had been used before. Also, trains could go a lot faster. Cards became even more popular in the UK when they could be posted in an unsealed envelope for one halfpenny - half the price of an ordinary letter. Mr Prang’s first cards featured flowers, As printing methods improved, plants, and children. In 1915, John C. Christmas cards became much Hall and two of his brothers created more popular and were produced Hallmark Cards, who are still one of in large numbers from about 1860. In the biggest card makers today! 1870 the cost of sending a post card, and also Christmas cards, dropped The first known ‘personalised’ to half a penny. This meant even more Christmas Card was sent in 1891 people were able to send cards. by Annie Oakley, the famous An engraved card by the artist sharpshooter and star of Buffalo Bill’s William Egley, who illustrated some of Wild West show. She went to Glasgow Charles Dickens’s books, is on display in1891 and sent Christmas cards in the British Museum. By the early back to her friends and family in the 1900s, the custom had spread over USA featuring a photo of her on it. In Europe and had become especially the picture she is dressed in Scottish popular in Germany. tartan and she reportedly designed the cards herself and they were The first cards usually had pictures printed by a local printer. of the Nativity scene on them. In late Victorian times, robins and snow- Some years later home made cards scenes became popular. In those became popular. They were often times the postmen were nicknamed unusual shapes and had things such ‘Robin Postmen’ because of the as foil and ribbon on them. These were red uniforms they wore. Snow- usually too delicate to send through scenes were popular because they the post and were given by hand. reminded people of the very bad Nowadays, cards have all sorts of winter that took place in 1836. pictures on them: jokes, winter pictures, Christmas Cards appeared in the Father Christmas or romantic snowy United States of America in the late villages in candlelight with choir boys 1840s, but were very expensive and singing. Charities often sell their own most people couldn’t afford them. In Christmas Cards as a way raising 1875, Louis Prang, a printer who was money at Christmas. originally from Germany but who had In the UK, we send about 900 million also worked on early cards in the Christmas cards a year, that is an UK, started mass producing cards so average of 16 each! more people could afford to buy them. 5 ew Year’s Day 1st January is a To call Mary the Mother of God feast dedicated to the Mother reminds us of this: God is close to N of God. This is what Pope humanity, even as a child is close Francis has said to the mother who bears him in her womb. The year opens in the name of the Mother. Mother of God is the most The word mother (mater) is related important title of Our Lady. But we to the word matter. In his Mother, might ask why we say Mother of God, the God of heaven, the infinite God, and not Mother of Jesus. In the past made himself small, he became some wanted to be content simply matter, not only to be with us but with the latter, but the Church has also to be like us. This is the miracle, declared that Mary is the Mother of the great novelty! Man is no longer God. We should be grateful, because alone; no more an orphan, but these words contain a magnificent forever a child. The year opens with truth about God and about this novelty. And we proclaim it by ourselves. From the moment that our saying: Mother of God! Ours is the Lord became incarnate in Mary, and joy of knowing that our solitude has for all time, he took on our humanity. ended. It is the beauty of knowing There is no longer God without man; that we are beloved children, of the flesh Jesus took from his Mother knowing that this childhood of ours is our own, now and for all eternity. can never be taken away from us. 6 It is to see a reflection of ourselves Majesty is without words; his mystery of in the frail and infant God resting in love is revealed in lowliness. This silence his mother’s arms, and to realize that and lowliness is the language of his humanity is precious and sacred to kingship. His Mother joins her Son the Lord. Henceforth, to serve human and keeps these things in silence. life is to serve God. All life, from life in the mother’s womb to that of the elderly, That silence tells us that, if we would the suffering and the sick, and to that “keep” ourselves, we need silence. of the troublesome and even repellent, We need to remain silent as we gaze is to be welcomed, loved and helped. upon the crib. Pondering the crib, we discover anew that we are loved; Let us now be guided by today’s we savour the real meaning of life. Gospel. Only one thing is said about As we look on in silence, we let Jesus the Mother of God: “Mary kept all these speak to our heart. His lowliness things, pondering them in her heart” (Lk lays low our pride; his poverty 2:19). She kept them. She simply kept; challenges our outward display; his Mary does not speak. The Gospel does not report a single word of hers in the tender love touches our hardened entire account of Christmas. Here too, hearts. To set aside a moment of the Mother is one with her Son: Jesus is silence each day to be with God is an “infant”, a child “unable to speak”.
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