Be watchful, be alert! Our first meeting for 2020 occurs very early in the month on

Wednesday, January 8th. We will gather after the mass for a winter "comfort" lunch featuring baked pork chops, scalloped potatoes, peas and carrots, coleslaw and apple muffins. Instead of New Year's resolutions, we will focus on New Year's prayers. Make up your own short prayer or choose one of your favorites from  The Book of Common Prayer . Contact Cheryl Peterson with questions.

A Copywriter's Christmas

By Margaret Fishback

 

The Twenty-fifth is imminent

And every known expedient

Designed for making Christmas pay

Is getting swiftly under way.

Observe the people swarming to

And fro, somnambulating through

The stores in search of ties and shirts

And gloves to give until it hurts.

 

They're eyeing gifts in Saks' and Hearn's

And Macy's, not to mention Stern's,

While earnest copywriters are

Hitching their copy to the star

Of Bethlehem quite shamelessly,

For they are duty bound to see

That Peace On Earth Good Will To Men

Gets adequate results again.

Things in the Ascension office are neither as secular or goofy as in this holiday scene from The Office, but they're last-minute enough that we'll be grateful for your understanding about this get-to-the point and stick-to-the-basics newsletter.

- Fr Raymond +