Recent Vestry Notes

Vestry Notes

Vestry Notes (week of 12-21-25)

At the Christmas Eve service, the white Christ candle was lit, celebrating the coming of the light of the world. Christmas takes me back to my childhood and our annual family walk through town to see the lights in the windows and trees lit up inside.  It was nothing like today where sometimes, I feel as though I’m living the Clark’s Christmas Vacation!  As a child, we didn’t have much and being together was one of our greatest gifts.  Every Christmas Eve, we would slowly make our way to the little town green where the baby Jesus would miraculously appear in the manger.  I was in awe and filled with wonder and I would hear:

Silent night, Holy night!
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus Christ at thy birth;
Jesus Christ at thy birth.

We’d come home to hot cocoa, stories shared and good snuggles before being tucked into our beds in anticipation of what might appear in our stockings and under the tree in a few short hours.  We had no heat in the bedrooms of our old house in upstate New York and dad would always come in and put us into our “cocoons” as his strong arms would tuck the covers in tightly all around us.  Mom would stand in the hallway and read Christmas stories to us before disappearing.  It was magical and it worked!

There are other Christmas memories that are hard, but I choose to remember the blessings.  What are your treasured Christmas memories?  May they fill you with wonder and joy on this magical day.

Colleen Hintz for the Vestry

Brian Malcolm, Paulette Bellew, Wardens
Vestry Members: Melissa Allman, Paul Cecala, Agnes Clyne, Leslie Harden, Colleen Hintz, Chuck Johnson, and Barbara Shannon.