Nativity Fast

Wishing all my friends on the New Calendar a blessed and fruitful Nativity Fast, 

and for those on the Old Calendar, enjoy these last days before the Fast begins! 

This picture made me giggle, but it is so appropriate for those of us who follow the western custom of lighting candles on an Advent wreath each weekend :-)

Kyrie de l'exaltation de la Croix

St John of Shanghai and SF served here, the Cathedral of St Irenaus in France in the 1960s.

The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 2014