on the feast of Stephen

Occasionally I try to expose my daughter to the daily lectionary at home, but today was not one of those days. I looked up the texts for today, St. Stephen's day, and both texts were of stonings. Not going there with a five year old.

Fortunately there's a happier note for this day given us by St. Wenceslas, the good king who "went out" on this day. We have a great kids book with the full text of the song and woodcut-type drawings (The one we have appears to be out of print, but this one looks pretty good).

May you do something on this 2nd (or 3rd, or whenever you read this) day of Christmas that blesses the poor.