The Dragoness and I would both like to wish all our friends and family a holy, happy, and blessed Christmas season, and all the best for a prosperous new year.

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“Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.” – G. K. Chesterton

(icon of the Blessed Mother and Christ Child by Ade Bethune)