{"id":7661,"date":"2023-12-24T00:51:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T00:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=7661"},"modified":"2023-12-24T00:54:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T00:54:41","slug":"happy-lille-julaften-and-fourth-sunday-in-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/happy-lille-julaften-and-fourth-sunday-in-advent\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Lille Julaften and Fourth Sunday in Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/christmas-sermon-for-pagans-viewpoints-nature-and-hope\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20231112ff\/20231223-24-Lille-4Julaften-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot: A Catholic Citizen in America. (December 23, 2023)\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">All four candles are lit for the fourth Sunday in Advent. Tomorrow&#8217;s Christmas Day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Lille Julaften! It&#8217;s still December 23, here in central Minnesota: Lille Julaften, Little Christmas Eve, as my Scandinavian relatives put it, back in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Catholic Citizen in America is on UTC time, where it&#8217;s already Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And<\/strong> the fourth Sunday in Advent, so those four candles in the upper right hand corner won&#8217;t stay lit long. I spent part of Saturday afternoon setting up a no-snow Christmas picture for that spot: and that&#8217;s a brief topic for another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forecast says I&#8217;ll get rained on tomorrow morning. Not me, personally. Just that there&#8217;ll be rain when I go to Mass. Good news, it&#8217;ll have been above freezing all night, so streets and sidewalk won&#8217;t be skating rinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s about it, apart from wishing you a Merry Christmas, happy holiday, not-so-wintry winter solstice, and prevenient Happy New Year! (&#8220;Prevenient&#8221; is a word! \ud83d\ude09 Look it up!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Lille Julaften! It&#8217;s still December 23, here in central Minnesota: Lille Julaften, Little Christmas Eve, as my Scandinavian relatives put it, back in the day. A Catholic Citizen in America is on UTC time, where it&#8217;s already Christmas Eve. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/happy-lille-julaften-and-fourth-sunday-in-advent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Just a quick Lille Julaften, Little Christmas Eve, and what the forecast says post.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Happy Lille Julaften and Fourth Sunday in Advent","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[103,109,90,132],"class_list":["post-7661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-holidays","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-1Zz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7665,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions\/7665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}