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Merry Christmas!

24 Tuesday Dec 2024

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The King shall come when morning dawns,
And light triumphant breaks;
When beauty gilds the eastern hills,
And life to joy awakes.

Not as of old, a little child
To bear, and fight, and die,
But crowned with glory like the sun,
That lights the morning sky.

Oh, brighter than the rising morn,
When He, victorious, rose,
And left the lonesome place of death,
Despite the rage of foes—

Oh, brighter than that glorious morn,
Shall this fair morning be,
When Christ, our King, in beauty comes,
And we His face shall see!

The King shall come when morning dawns,
And earth’s dark night is past—
Oh, haste the rising of that morn,
That day that aye shall last.

The King shall come when morning dawns,
And light and beauty brings:
Hail, Christ the Lord! Thy people pray,
Come quickly, King of kings!

 

Updated on the Feast of Our Lady of Bethlehem. Yes! It’s still Christmas! Amuse your friends! Annoy the easily-annoyed! It’s Sciencia!

Rachel Griffin Read Along: September 7th, 2023

08 Friday Sep 2023

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Leaving her standing on the bed, hopeless, her hands overflowing with candy.

Waking up in the infirmary, Rachel’s beloved father is here! At last, recognition, appreciation, a North Star for her troubled heart which she has not had since her grandfather died-! Nope. Rachel’s dad needed to listen to the Limeliters more. Continue reading →

Rachel Griffin Read Along: September 6th, 2023

07 Thursday Sep 2023

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So, you know how you wanted to be a Knight and revenge the wrongs done to us?

It turns out that revenge is a dish best served cold – but ordered at breakfast. Rachel discovers Sigfried’s secret weakness and Zoe steps up with the promise of “humiliations galore”. Rachel gets a terse reply from her father and bonds with Gaius Valiant over a shared desire to be in Dee. At lunch it turns out that Rachel’s dad is in a comic book. (Honestly, if you have ever seen the TV show The Librarian, it’s hard to understand why Daring Northwest didn’t get his own series) and Sigfried hurts Wendy Darling’s feelings, but he and Nastasia (now returned from the infirmary) warm Rachel’s heart by promising to get her into the YSL meeting.

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Rachel Griffin Read Along: September 5th, 2023

06 Wednesday Sep 2023

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Please report to the gymnasium at three-thirty on Wednesday to assume your new position as my instructional assistant.

Woohoo! Work-study. Not that Lady Griffin needs money, but it is nice to be flying. Today Rachel spots a tiny Drake Hall student sporting a black eye. The mean girls from yesterday deliberately ruin her morning, right in front of Rachel’s long-time crush, James Darling. Her surprise from yesterday comes to the rescue and there goes breakfast. Continue reading →

Rachel Griffin Read Along: September 4th, 2023

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

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Even among the wise, animals do not talk. These two were talking.

September 4th, 2023 was the beginning of Rachel Griffin’s adventures. The authoress, Jagi Lamplighter began Rachel’s adventures yesterday.

I’m going to re-read the books in “real time”. The day after the day in the book, I’ll post something here in the blog, including drawings and discussion questions. Continue reading →