Last year I decided to make, for the first time, my own Christmas Pudding. I got a late start on it. It was delicious.
This year I am going to pay attention to Stir Up Sunday.
20 November is Stir Up Sunday if I am not mistaken, the 23rd and Last Sunday after Pentecost.
Your plans?
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
Loading ...
A Daily Prayer for Priests
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265
on Francis’ NEW “Desiderio desideravi” an Apostolic Letter “on the liturgical formation of the people of God” – an attempt to explain Traditionis custodes, to calm the storm: “In the Passover Seder the participants drink four cups of wine, the last of which is the Cup of Consummation.…”
on Look at more of “Desiderio desideravi”: “I have always resisted the label of “traditionalist” and I have always believed that it was possible to have a…”
on You have seen the logo for the 2025 Jubilee? – UPDATED: ““The official logo … has been unveiled.” Manifestatio manifestat. A veil is an instrument of mystery — of the nuptial…”
on ASK FATHER: Are we obliged to avoid businesses which will pay for employees’ abortion?: “This question of cooperation raises an issue that has been bothering me ever since Dobbs was announced. If you live…”
on You have seen the logo for the 2025 Jubilee? – UPDATED: “I would like something a little less Madison Ave. and even less Christopher St. Don’t we have something in a…”
on 29 June 1972. Paul VI says, “the smoke of Satan has entered the Church of God”: “James C, your comments on St. Paul VI are unjustly harsh as well as historically incorrect. St. Paul VI faced…”
on Look at more of “Desiderio desideravi”: “In Dd, Pope Francis writes, “A celebration that does not evangelize is not authentic, just as a proclamation that does…”
on You have seen the logo for the 2025 Jubilee? – UPDATED: “They could have used red, green, violet, and gold (white) to resemble the liturgical colors. But then again…maybe they did.…”
on ASK FATHER: Are we obliged to avoid businesses which will pay for employees’ abortion?: “What about working for a company that pays women’s travel expenses in order to travel to states that allow them…”
on Look at more of “Desiderio desideravi”: “Publishing this letter long after Traditiones Custodes and not before hand is like mugging somebody and then wanting to sit…”
on Look at more of “Desiderio desideravi”: “What I have read so far is written in very fluent English. I wonder what the original language might be,…”
on You have seen the logo for the 2025 Jubilee? – UPDATED: ““There is no black figure, so this is not a sly reference to the Olympics, with its blue, black, red,…”
on You have seen the logo for the 2025 Jubilee? – UPDATED: “Holy cow, that’s some link! I do not know why all this copied, but you could (and should!) just go…”
on 29 June 1972. Paul VI says, “the smoke of Satan has entered the Church of God”: “Disclosure: I’m a fan of St. Paul VI. “Humanae Vitae” He was a voice crying out in the wilderness against…”
on Look at more of “Desiderio desideravi”: “Imagine in 2022, the Coca-Cola Company still trying to push New Coke, stubbornly insisting that it was a superior product…”
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful.
That way I have steady income I can plan on, and you wind up regularly on my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I periodically say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
My "challenge coin" for my 25th anniversary of ordination in 2016.
Want one? I do exchanges with military and LEOs, etc.
Loading ...If you travel internationally, this is a super useful gizmo for your mobile internet data. I use one. If you get one through my link, I get data rewards.
Loading ...
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
Help Monks in Wyoming (coffee – UPDATED LINK) and Norcia (beer) and the wonderful "Soap Sisters" of Summit, NJ!
Please follow me on Twitter!
Visits tracked by Statcounter
since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
That’s my birthday, Father! ;-)
Usually I start making a fruitcake the day after Thanksgiving (Alton Brown’s recipe, which is incredible). Perhaps this year I shall do it on Stir-Up Sunday. A good and poetic day to bake.
That is the day I put up my jars of mincemeat to mellow for the next 5 weeks in their rum and brandy baths (18th century recipe. They certainly weren’t shy about rum).
Except that in the new Missal, we only have “Stir Up Monday to Saturday”!
By the way, could you please make some comment on the rationale for shifting the traditional “Excita” collects for the First and Second Sundays in Advent to the Friday in the First Week of Advent and the Thursday in the Second Week of Advent respectively? (There is yet a fourth “Stir Up” collect on the Thursday in the First Week of Advent – where did that come from?)
When I was a Lutheran pastor, I greatly enjoyed praying these “Stir up” prayers at the beginning of each year. They are so distinctive and powerful, that I really can’t understand the decision to bump them to the weekday masses in the Missal of Paul VI.
Hmm…I haven’t made a fruitcake in years. Like Phillip, I used to start it on the day after Thanksgiving, but starting on Stir Up Sunday would give the rum more time to perform its magic.
I’m a middle aged mother but I must confess that I am already SO excited about Christmas this year. Giddy! And I distinctly remember last year’s threads on “stir up” Sunday (a tradition I was not previously familiar with). This year … fruitcake, most definitely. I noticed all the dried fruit that showed up at the grocery store about a week ago …
Anyone have a special recipe to share?
The term also describes, in some places, the Third Sunday of Advent, otherwise known as “Gaudete Sunday.” Or so I had read once long ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stir-up_Sunday
Plenty of opportunities to “stir up” our preparations, I suppose.
This year, as always, I’ll make 2 puddings. I usually start on or close to 8th December, the reason being that when we were kids we had that day off school, if a weekday, and my mother would enlist our (somewhat dubious) help in the preparations. So I’ve kept to that date. Last year, for various reasons, I had to use whiskey instead of the usual rum and although I also used an amount of Guinness, as is usual in Ireland, the result was that the puddings turned out lighter and somehow different in taste – “drier” was one remark. It’ll be back to the rum this year… and plenty of it!
Stir up Sunday is going to be on November 27th this year, I think.
The plum and apple chutney was bottled in August and the puds are going to be made this weekend (left overnight, followed by 8 hrs steaming) giving plenty of time for the stout and brandy to do their stuff. The puddings come out almost black and verrrry rich. I wish I liked to eat them but I’d rather have a mince pie.
catholicmidwest
November 27th is the 1st Sunday in/of Advent; Stir Up is the Sunday Next Before Advent (Last after Pentecost/Trinity, occurring with Christ the King in the newer calendar).
Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded.
Excita quesumus Domine tuorum fidelium voluntates: ut divini operis fructum propensius exsequentes, pietatis tue remedia majora percipiant. (spelling as late mediæval Sarum).