shepherds Archives - Shalom Snail

December 28, 2025December 18, 2025

Feast of the Holy Family

The shepherds went in haste and found Mary and Joseph,
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December 25, 2021January 1, 2022

Christ the Lord is Born Today

Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping the night watch over their flock. The angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were struck with great fear.

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November 30, 2020October 21, 2022

Words of Spirit and Life

Plaque with the Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew, ca. 1160–80 British, Champlevé enamel on gilded copper; 3 7/16 × 4 15/16 × 1/8 in. (8.7 × 12.5 × 0.3 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 2013 (2013.508) http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/479797

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Here is the place of my birth, Temporary visit on earth. Hereafter is a place prepared for me, In God's…

Thank you for your beautiful reflection, Ellen!

Not a gravel road, or smooth asphalt, No rutted dirt rural route, Not a path to follow, But a Person…

Feast of Catherine of Siena She believed... Catherine courageously spoke truth to power. In times of famine, and plague; During…