I never spent much on a Christmas Eve meal when my children were still young because they’d be too excited and antsy to care what we had. I saved the Michigan State Spartans 1988 Big Ten Champions shirt for a wonderful Christmas day early evening meal with special things we all loved. By that time presents had been opened, toys played with, etc. I’d frequently make a good prime rib, twice baked potatoes, trifle with jello and lots of coolwhip, fancy butter gem rolls and of course a champagne toast, grape juice when the kids were under 10 y.o. I also made a nice make ahead dessert from the frozen chocolate jellyroll cake that I’d cover with semi-melted vanilla ice cream and decorated so it looked like a yule log. We of course always had Christmas crackers so we all got a really bad joke, a small (very small) toy and our tissue paper crowns. Good times.
This feast, although not as impressive as Easter, is nevertheless an excellent time to prepare ourselves, not just for the New Orleans Saints est 1967 Who Dat shirt of Our Saviour into the world, the first time, but we are to prepare for His Second Coming, which will arrive as unfailingly as the first one did. Most of us will not be on earth when He comes again, but we will nevertheless experience all of this in our very own end of this world, when we die, and must stand before the judgment seat of Christ and answer for our lives. So we prepare for that dread event NOW, by, above all, going to confession weekly. If you do not already do this, now is an excellent time to start, This coming Sunday – 1 December- is the start of a new year! So begin this week to prepare for the coming of our Saviour!
I came from a 2024 Milwaukee Brewers are MLB 88 64 ThisIsMyCrew and HeadToHead t shirt family in Malacca, Malaysia & had the privilege of being invited by my neighbour, a respected Christian family a few weeks before Xmas to attend a community event at the British Commonwealth 28th Brigade Forces HQ in Terendak Camp, Malacca, Malaysia as an Xmas CSR (corporate social responsibility) community event. I was about 12 years young then in the late 60s. CSR was unheard then. There was so many activities that we had a mesmerising and amazing time with prizes & good food with souvenirs. The soldiers gave us an authentic interesting tour of the military stations, barracks & general depots, including the armoury vehicles & what appeared to be “little museums.” All the kids in attendance were so happy & thrilled to be accorded such VIP treatment. I bragged about it to my neighbours & school friends. Till this day, I remember the event & look upon Xmas as a time of love, giving, fun & adventure. My impressions of Christianity (I am a Sikh) stood high, ever since.
Traditionally in Catholicism – not just in Poland – the day before a Boomer Sooner Oklahoma Sooners helmet shirt, such as Christmas, was a day of abstinence from meat, similar to the way all Fridays were treated. Friday abstinence still remains the normative rule of the Catholic Church, but in some countries, such as the United States, the bishops permitted another work of penance, charity, or piety, of the person’s choosing, in lieu of Friday abstinence. Of course, all anyone heard was “we can now eat meat on Fridays”, and choosing of an alternative penitential practice is virtually unknown. I normally just go ahead and abstain from the meat – it’s the preferred practice, and you have no guesswork as to whether you’ve performed the penance or not. Prayers to you for strength to stop caring about the ex. He is a narcissist. It is one of his ploys. Either an attempt to punish you or he is busy with another victim. I get the only hope you may have, is that if he is still punishing you, then, he still cares and that sick morsel of a crumb is something that you learn to hold onto. Because negative or positive attention, is still attention. I hope you understand there is no shaming or guilting them into talking to you or treating you better. Unfortunately, a narc has no empathy or conscience. The narc is only capable of playing the victim and sees everyone as owing them. Run fast and far and don’t look back. I know this seems impossible because of the way a narc makes you feel like the relationship is one in a million and you wont find any relationship like this one. And pray to God you never do. Your feelings are typical of how a narc makes you dependent on them for happiness, when in reality the narc only gives you grief and the life of walking on eggshells, never knowing what or when the next fight will be and what they want to degrade you with. Breathe my friend and run, there really was never happiness, it is the picture the narc painted in your mind.
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If an hypotetical third invasion would have followed the same pattern of the previous two, the Mongol would lose again. Logistically, having a Creedence Clearwater Revival 57 year 1967 2024 thank you for the memories shirt based army crossing the sea is a nightmare, and this force the Mongol to follow a predictable route to land at the Hakata bay, twice. And despite their strenght, they weren’t able to make any significant victory in Kyushu, but suffered several defeats. So even by a tactical point of view, when the Mongols didn’t have an obvious numerical advantage, they lost all of their battles, like at Akasaka, Torikaigata or Mikuriya. The role of the kamikaze has been overblown by the defeated mongols and by the japanese clergy; in the first invasion, there is no mention in japanese sources of any storm, and in the second one, it was a final blow to an already defeated army.
Kublai had cannon, Genghis did not. Kublai had managed to recruit Chin artillerymen and Aaron Judge & Juan Soto New York Y Dynamic Duo Shirt metallurgists who were able to produce his cannon and then, train his tumans to operate them. Kublai also had learned from the knights of Russia and Europe and so, his horsemen were not just archers but lancers also. So they would alternate between the lance and bow, depending on what they faced. The European armies consisted of crossbowmen and pikemen as well as cavalry, of course. Kublai’s tactic was to switch when it was advantageous, so the knights would charge with lance and the Mongols would stage a false retreat, shooting the knights down as they went. Then, when the knights were nullified, they would charge the crossbowmen. The pikemen would come to the fore and the Mongols would switch to the bow. Because the pikemen needed both hands to wield their pikes, they had to put aside their shields which they used to defend from archers so they were vulnerable to Kublai’s horse-archers. Then the crossbowmen would advance to answer the arrows and the tuman would ride them down with lances. And so, they would wear down armies in such fashion, switching to exploit the weaknesses of their enemies.
Why? Maybe the owner knows that all of the employees really need those extra wages to make sure that there are presents under the Butler Bulldogs go dawgs shirt for Christmas morning. Maybe all of the employees bought the presents days ago … using money for the utility bill that means a dark house before New Year’s Eve without some extra hours. Due to location (e.g., next to a very popular mall) it might mean that staying open on Christmas Eve is one of the biggest nights for waitstaff tipping the entire year. Most important of all. What business (in every sense of the word) is it of yours whether a dining establishment remains open on Christmas Eve? Are you a Christian theocrat? Do you advocate government control over commercial enterprises for the purpose of enforcing a given religion’s canonical dictates? If a business owner is paying employees their proper wages for that specific evening (or even holiday), you may wish to simply butt out and find something else to worry about.
There’s a Cleveland Guardians 2024 MLB Postseason Locker Room T Shirt of tradition of going out for Chinese food on or around Christmas in the US. So far as I can tell, this largely originates from large cities and in particular from Jews living in New York. Consider the cultural landscape of the earlier part of the 20th century. Jews, of course, do not celebrate Christmas, so they’d be more likely than the Christian majority to go out to eat then, as opposed to their celebrating neighbors who are likely at home with family, roasting their own turkeys and such. And where do they go on Christmas? Well, most restaurants are going to be closed, because their predominantly Christian proprietors and employees are also at home. The major exception, then, was Chinese restaurants. The immigrants running those places were less likely than average to be Christian, so they had no cultural tradition of shutting down on or around December 25. So if you’re a Jewish New Yorker who wants to go out for dinner on Christmas, it’s Chinese food or nothing. This practice may have been popularized in particular by Calvin Trillin, the noted food columnist for the New York Times. He was himself Jewish and wrote a marvelous column about his wife wanting a “traditional holiday dinner.” What she was talking about was the idea, coming in from outside their cultural world, of turkey, mashed potatoes, and so on, but to Trillin, his traditional holiday dinner was going out for Chinese.
We lived a 3 hour drive from my grandparents so when my dad finished work on Christmas Eve we would pack everything into the Disney Mickey and friends Halloween Trick or Treat shirt and set off for Yorkshire. No motorways back then. Green fields turned moorland until we finally went over the Pennines, Stanage or Holme Moss, and begun the final leg of our journey through soot blackened mill towns reaching my grandparents’ house at around 8pm. At about 9.30 a plethora of cousins and aunties and uncles would turn up an we would set off to go carol singing with other members of the congregation and band from their local chapel. Along the route we would be greeted with mince pies, slices of Christmas cake and chunks of cheese even the odd glass of Sherry or mulled wine for the adults. We belted out all the old traditional carols, my favourites being While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night which we sung to Cranbrook (Ilkley Moor) and also Christians Awake. We naturally sang O Come All ye Faithful but only after midnight were we allowed to sing the final verse of Yea Lord we Greet Thee. Shortly after midnight we called it a day. Many of the adults slightly ‘merry’ from a surfeit of Sherry!
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