...ending with a Te Deum of thanksgiving for the past year and Benediction of the Blessed SacramentNight of December 31: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until midnight...Sunday in the octave of Christmas. Mass celebrated by Canon Lefèvre, Vice Rector of the Seminary of Gricigliano, who came to spend a few days in Switzerland with some seminarians who could not return to their families for the holidaysChristmas decorationsChristmas carolsSome ornaments for the small oratory that we have in the house in honor of Saint JosephApple juiceFruit pastillesThe sisters offered to Sister Anne-Laure-Marie, Superior of the house, several gifts that they made themselvesRecreational reading of a fable of La FontaineFor dessertOur families and our benefactors have spoiled us well!...starting with those offered by our Prior GeneralOpening gifts...Evening of December 25: Christmas carols in front of the crib...for Benediction of the Blessed SacramentThe acolytes arrange the altar...2nd Vespers of the NativityLunch with our guests...surrounded by the SistersAfter her first Communion, at the feet of Our Lady...... during which one of our young faithful, Marie-Lou, made her first communionMass of the day...the Refectory, before Christmas breakfastAfter Midnight, all the cribs in the House receive their Baby Jesus!Evening MassIn front of the crib, last day of the novena in preparation of the birth of the Savior, singing of "O Come Divine Messiah.”1st Vespers of the Nativityin the refectory... in the various rooms of the House...Poinsettias on the Altar...Christmas preparations. In the chapel: two Christmas trees are arranged, one on each side..."... in the sixth age of the world, JESUS CHRIST, eternal God, and Son of the eternal Father, willing to sanctify the world by his holy coming, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit, and nine months having elapsed since his conception, was born of the glorious Virgin Mary in Bethlehem, city of Judas..."Office of Prime on December 24, during which an excerpt from the Martyrology is sung, referring to the Saints celebrated the next day
