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\nDecember 1958,volume 26 number I  \n2 Stirring up for ChristmasAnn Makletzoff  \n6 Song:The Kingdom is at Hand  \n8 Advent and IncarnationMaur Burbach,0.S.B.  \n11 Christmas Crib Blessing  \n12 “O”Antiphons  \n14 It is the House of GodBede Scholz,0.S.B.  \n16 Peace on Earth:Psalm 84  \n18·“First Christmas”Sister M.Faith,O.S.B.  \n23 Bethlehem(Poem)  \nJude Pansini,0.S.B.  \n24 Christ the Tree  \nSister M.Josella,O.S.F.  \n29 Question Box  \n32 Contributors  \nALTAR &HOME,a family magazine devoted to the full liturgical apostolateis published monthly except during June and August by the monks of Con-ception Abbey at Conception,Mo.,with ecclesiastical approbation.Editor,Rev.Hugh Tasch;Art and layout director,Rev.Norbert Schappler;Busi-ness Manager,Rev.Alphonse Sitzmann;Circulation Manager,Rev.FrowinBrownfield,all of the Order of Saint Benedict.  \n# StiRRinG up\n\n\"We await a savior,The Lord Jesus Christ,Who will reshape the bodyOf our lowliness  \nAfter the shape of the bodyOf his splendor.  \nTemperately,justly,reverently,Let us live in this world,Awaiting the blessed hopeAnd advent of the gloryOf the great God.”(Responsory in Advent)  \n# [oR chRIstmas\n\nThe scene around every familytable,when comes the first Sun-day of Advent,will,we hope,becentered around the four-candledwreath,the Advent Wreath.  \nulated greens most practical.Fourcandles are placed in the center,for the four weeks of Advent.  \nHere's how it would be done.  \nYour six-or seven-year-old canBefore the main meal on this light one candle for the first weekfirst Sunday,the father,motherof the new season,and say theand children are gathered around prayer which happens to be thethe evergreen circle—symbol ofcollect of the mass for that firsteternal life,symbol of the cycle ofSunday:ages longing for Christ's coming,\"Let us pray.Stir up thy might,  \nand symbol of the enfolding love we beg thee,Lord,and come...”of God for his people.The candle is lighted,then,forAfter all,Advent is our real Newthe evening meal all that firstYear's celebration,the beginningweek,or at prayers or bedtime.of a new Church year.The simpleTwo candles for the secondbeauty of lighting a candle in pre-week,three candles for the thirdparation for Christmas is an ex-week,four candles for the lastcellent way to establish those goodweek should be lighted and kepthabits in our children,in our fam-burning for a time each day dur-ilies.And so far as the age of the ing the season.Similarly,have thechild goes,the earlier you start,collects for these weeks read re-the better.Pick or buy the ever'-spectively,with the oldest child,greens,get the youngsters to help,the mother and father takingor at least to see how it is made.their turns on successive Sundays.In the case of very young children,we found a bought wreath of sim-which will be hinted at here,make,  \nThis custom,and many others  \nHow much more closely our an-servation piece”for young and old cestors lived out the liturgical cy-at table.“What is the light for,cle than we.On that day,withdaddy?”can be the beginning of them,a huge pudding filled withan important lesson.The light isall the good things like plums,Christ,for example,the fathermight explain,and the darknessaround it is the sin and selfishnessand neglect of God or of the poor'.It is a picture showing how weand the rest of the world would beif God had not loved us so muchas to send his only Son into theworld.  \nfirst of all,for a wonderful \"con-   ]  \nraisins,currants,figs,dates,nutmeats,etc.,was stirred by eachmember of the family.In a finepamphlet,“Advent Customs,”Mrs.McLaughlin has included an oldfashioned recipe for such a pud-ding.If you put this idea to useI'’m sure your family will be doinga little thinking about why weshould ask God to stir up his mightand come.It is by carrying outthese little things that we(bigand little)learn.  \nAlso,for the neighbors.Recent-ly I had the 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