Father Greeley will be celebrating Mass on Christmas with his friend Father John Cusick and enjoying the day with his family. He wishes each and everyone a Joyous, Warm, and Peaceful Holiday Season! He personally enjoys and offers this blessing from his Irish American Blessings and Prayers.
A Blessing For Christmas
Each Christmas comes as a surprising gift
Like an infant’s first tiny tottering step
Or a rediscovered lover’s tender touch
After a stormy night, soothing dawn
Snowflakes lightly dusting a frozen field
the smile of hope in a hurrying crowd
Pardon long delayed then quickly given
Candlelight which fractures the winter gloom
May delight lurk for you at every turn
Amid all the evergreen and mistletoe
And tissued heaps of tinsel ribboned gifts
May Christmas wonder renew your deepest loves
With whom go hand in hand to Bethlehem
To be surprised by the Mother and Her child
May God bless you.
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDear Father Greeley, his family and friends,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope my favorite city isn’t as buried in snow as we are here up north in Minnesota.
I will miss waiting for your newest book, whether fiction or non-fiction. Maybe I’ll have to start rereading your novels but this time in the correct order
Joan
P S How about Da Bears.
Dear Father Greeley and Family,
As I have been away from the blog for some time, I missed the opportunity to send Christmas greetings. I hope that you all enjoyed the season, and wish you a happy 2011. I have just read that Father will no longer be able to write, which the selfish part of me mourns. I was hoping against the odds that he’d make a full recovery. I am grateful that God blessed him with his life, and time to spend with family and friends. I will certainly read the final book with relish.
I’d like to thank Father for all of his years of dedication to producing such thought provoking articles and books. I wish him a continued comfortable retirement, surrounded by family and friends. I’d also like to thank those family and friends, who have shared Father with the rest of us, for so many years. Peace to all of you.
Dear Father Greeley
Hope you had a Happy Birthday last month. Have a great St Patricks Day tomorrow. Wish I could be drinking a green beer with you but not too many bars carry gluten free beer and I am a little to far away to commute, being in Minnesota.
Hope the Bears do well this year if they don’t
strike. The Sox and Cubs will probably do their usual and give us hope just to dash it at the very end.
Your fan and pesonal poet
Joan