26 November 2023 – STIR UP SUNDAY

26 November 2023 will be the 34th and Last Sunday after Pentecost, the last Sunday of this liturgical year.  That means it will be

STIR UP SUNDAY!

Make your plans now so you don’t have to rush around or find that you can’t get certain ingredients.

The “stir up” comes from the first words of the traditional Collect at Mass of the Last Sunday of the Year.

Excita, [Stir up!] quaesumus. Dómine, tuórum fidélium voluntátes: ut, divíni óperis fructum propénsius exsequéntes; pietátis tuæ remédia maióra percípiant.

Many stir up the ingredients for their Christmas puddings on Stir Up Sunday, and steam it, so that it has adequate time to set before the big day.

What are YOUR pudding plan?

Find a recipe, make a plan with the family, and make a Christmas pudding (or two) this year!

You can help me with the ingredients and win my gratitude as well as remembrance among the benefactors I pray for at Mass.

Think about getting your Christmas shopping done early.

First, remember always… always… to use my links when you shop online on Amazon.  US HERE – UK HERE

Thanks in advance!

Also, I might hit up a friend “up north” to send me some real holly.

In the meantime, here – once again this year – are images from a book I recall from my distant childhood, depicting “Max” preparing what I now – at long last – understand to be a Christmas Pudding!  As an (American) kid I had always wondered what he was making.

Any resemblance to hamsters – once on sidebars – is entirely intentional.

Yes, sometimes our best plans and efforts blow up in our faces.