#Adventssonntag

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Einen besinnlichen 1. Adventssonntag wünschen Peter & Team

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Bisschen Spoiler ist hier drin...also ACHTUNG!

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Holidays 12.1

Holidays

Antarctica Day

Applejack Day (My Little Pony)

Basketball Day

Battle of the Sinop Day (Russia)

Becky Thatcher Day

Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day

Bizarre Bazaar

Carbon Management Day

Chia Pet Hunting Season begins

Civil Air Patrol Day

Commemoration Day (UAE)

Crossing of the Cattle at Diafarabe (Mali)

Damrong Rajanuhab Day (Thailand)

Data Innovation Day

Day of the First President (Kazakhstan)

Day With(out) Art

First Day of Meteorological Summer Day (Southern Hemisphere)

First Day of Meteorological Winter Day (Northern Hemisphere)

First President Day (Kazakhstan)

Fishmas

Flag Day (Saba)

Freedom and Democracy Day (Chad)

Fullveldisdagurinn (a.k.a. Self-Governance Day; Iceland)

Good Neighborliness Day (Turkmenistan)

Ice Hockey Day (Russia)

Indigenous Faith Day (Arunachal, India)

International Prisoners for Peace Day

International Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency Day

James Gandolfini Day (New Jersey)

Karakalpak Language Day (Karakalpak Peoples)

Lawyer’s Day (Belarus)

Lewdmas

Military Abolition Day (Costa Rica)

MLM Day (Russia)

Motion Pictures Day (Japan)

My Husband Strung the Xmas Lights and Now I Can't Open the Garage Door Day

National Biliary Atresia Awareness Day

National Christmas Book Day

National Christmas Lights Day

National Cookie Cutter Day

National Day of Courage

National Grinch Day

National I Told You So Day

National Jandal Day (New Zealand)

National Online Risk and Compliance Day

National Sabbath-Keeping Schools Day

National Transit Tribute to Rosa Parks Day

National Twin With Your Dog Day (UK)

National Water Safety Day (Australia)

National Women Support Women Day

National Zinc Day

Neurologist Day

Operation Santa Paws begins [until 21st]

Peaceful Easy Feeling Day (San Diego, California)

Playboy Magazine Day

Prisoners for Peace Day

Prosecutors’ Day (Ukraine)

Rosa Parks Day (Ohio, Oregon) [also 2.4]

Scrabble Day

Singh Cultural Day (Pakistan)

Teachers’ Day (Panama)

University Student Strike Day (Myanmar)

Wallace & Gromit’s Great British Tea Party begins (thru 21st)

Wax Day (French Republic)

Wear a Dress Day [also 6.1]

Weather Service Day

White Rabbit Day

World AIDS Day (UN)

Yukon Order of Pioneers Day

Ziua Unirii (Romania)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Dr. Pepper Day

Eat A Red Apple Day

Glögg Day (Sweden)

International Maratheftiko Day

MMMHop Beer Day

National Baked Alaska Day

National Fried Pie Day

National Peppermint Bark Day

National Pie Day [also 1.23]

Independence & Related Days

Central African Republic (Proclamation of the Republic; 1958)

Great Union Day (celebrating merger of Transylvania & Romania, 1918)

Iceland (from Denmark, 1918)

Nagaland (State Inauguration Day; India)

Portugal (from Spain, 1640) [a.k.a. Restoration of Independence]

Sancratosia (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

1st Sunday in December

Artist’s Sunday [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Cyber Safety Sunday [1st Sunday]

1st Sunday in Advent [4th Sunday before Xmas] (a.k.a. ... 

Adventssonntag (Germany)

Advent Sunday

Hope Sunday

Midwinter Horn Blowing (Netherlands)

Good Neighborliness Day [1st Sunday]

Museum Store Sunday [1st Sunday]

National AIDS Sunday (Philippines) [1st Sunday]

National Secondhand Day [1st Sunday]

Pasadena Doo Dah Parade [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Seven For Sunday [Every Sunday]

Small Brewery Sunday [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Snack Sunday [1st Sunday of Each Month]

Spiritual Sunday [1st Sunday of Each Month]

Start Over Sunday [1st Sunday of Each Month]

Sundae Sunday [Every Sunday]

Sunday Funday [Every Sunday]

Tropical Tree Day (Australia) [1st Sunday]

World AIDS Sunday [1st Sunday]

World Ice Skating Day [1st Sunday]

World Meditation Day [1st Sunday of Every Month]

Weekly Holidays beginning December 1 (1st Full Week of December)

Advent (thru 12.24) [4th Sunday before Xmas]

Clerc-Gallaudet Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

Cookie Cutter Week (thru 12.7) [1st Week]

Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week (thru 12.7) [1st Week]

National Hand Washing Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

National Influenza Vaccination Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

National Pet Suffocation Awareness Week (thru 12.7) [Week after Thanksgiving]

Older Driver Safety Awareness Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

Recipe Greetings for the Holidays Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

Tolerance Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

Festivals Beginning December 1, 2024

Christmas in Newport (Newport, Rhode Island) [thru 12.31]

Christmas on the Comstock (Virginia City, Nevada) [thru 12.31]

Hollywood Christmas Parade (Hollywood, Los Angeles, California)

Jazz Bez (Lviv, Ukraine) [thru 12.10]

Kabakahan Festival (Padre Garcia, Philippines)

Night of the Proms (Oberhausen, Germany)

Rome Christmas Market (Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy) [thru 1.6.2025]

Vintage Christmas in Portsmouth (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) [thru 12.31]

Feast Days

Alexander Briant (Christian; Saint)

Ansanus (Christian; Saint)

Azar Nafisi (Writerism)

Barbes Diena (Sheep Fertility Festival; Ancient Latvia)

Beware the Pogonip (Frozen Fog Season; Native American)

Billy Childish (Artology)

Bodhi Season, Day 1 (Buddhism; Secular Date) [Leading Up to 12.8] (a.k.a. ... 

Principles: The One

Secular: Buddhism is a Skill

Eightfold Path: Awakened View

The Heart Sutra: The Universe Between #000000 and #FFFFFF

Bruna Pellesi (Christian; Blessed)

Candace Bushnell (Writerism)

Carnival of Celendonia (Shamanism)

Castritian (Christian; Saint)

Charles de Foucauld (Christian; Blessed)

Cromniomancy Day (Onion Divination; Everyday Wicca)

Deer’s Cry (Celtic Book of Days)

Edmund Campion (Christian; Saint)

Eligius (a.k.a. Eloy), Bishop of Noyon (Christian; Saint)

Eligiusz Niewiadomski (Artology)

Étienne Maurice Falconet (Artology)

Evasius (Christian; Saint)

Feast for the Death of Aleister Crowley (Thelema)

Feast of Saints Kyle, Stan, Cartman and Kenny (Church of the SubGenius; Saints)

Festival for Neptune/Poseidon (Ancient Greece/Rome)

Festival for Pietas (Goddess of Devotion; Ancient Rome)

Francia (Positivist; Saint)

Grwst (Christian; Saint)

Juner (Muppetism)

Kalends of December (Ancient Rome)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Artology)

Marijuana Sauce Day (Pastafarian)

Mindfulness Day (Zen Buddhism)

Mothra Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Nahum (Christian; Saint)

Nicholas Ferrar (Episcopal Church)

Ralph Sherwin (Christian; Saint)

Shiva’s Day (Pagan)

Ursicinus of Brescia (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Adventures of Don Juan (Film; 1948)

Africa (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

Alice and the Three Bears (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1924)

Axis: Bold As Love, by Jimi Hendrix (Album; 1967)

Baron Van Go-Go (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1967)

Beaver Trouble (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1951)

Beebo Saves Christmas (WB Animated TV Special)

The Big Freeze (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1970)

Blondie, by Blondie (Album; 1976)

The Booze Hangs High (WB LT Cartoon; 1930)

Candide, by Leonard Bernstein (Operetta; 1956)

A Charlie Brown Christmas, by Vince Guarldi (Soundtrack Album; 1965)

Christmas Vacation (Film; 1989)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain (Novel; 1884)

Daniel Boone, Jr. (Hector Heathcote Cartoon; 1960)

Dark (German TV Series; 2017)

Enchanters’ End Game, by David Eddings (Novel; 1984) [Belgariad #5]

The Farmer and the Belle (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1950)

Fiddling’ Around (Noveltoons Cartoons; 1962)

A Flight to the Finish (Hector Heathcote Cartoon; 1962)

The Floating Admiral, by the Detection Club (Mystery Novel; 1931)

Flop Secret (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1952)

Follow Me Boys (Film; 1966)

The Girl Can’t Help It (Rock Music Film; 1956)

Gooney Golfers (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1948)

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (Novel; 1836)

Growing Pains (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1953)

Happy Xmas (War Is Over), by John Lennon (Song; 1971)

The Haunted Cat (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1951)

Hi, Hi, Hi, by Wings (Song; 1972)

The Hitch-Hiker (Hashimoto Cartoon; 1939)

HMS Pinafore, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Operetta; 1879)

Honorable House Cat (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1961)

The House of the Rising Sun, by Frijid Pink (Song; 1969)

The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea (Collected Novels; 1975)

Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (Novel; 1900)

The Leaky Faucet (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1959)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen, by Laurence Sterne (Novel; 1759)

The Magic Slipper (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1948)

The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett (Novel; 1930)

Miceniks (Noveltoons Cartoons; 1960)

Molecular Mixup (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1964)

Mother Goose’s Birthday Party (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1950)

Mount Piney (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1968)

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Film; 1989)

No Logo, by Naomi Klein Book; 1999)

Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (Novel; 1817) [#5]

Ollie the Owl (Noveltoons Cartoons; 1963)

One of the Family (Modern Madcaps Cartoon; 1962)

Oswald Holiday Greeting Card (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 2013)

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Disney Cartoon; 2022)

Paint Pot Symphony (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1950)

The Phantom Skyscraper (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1966)

The Philadelphia Story (Film; 1940)

Picnic with Papa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1952)

Playboy Magazine (Adult Magazine; 1953)

The Plot Sickens (Modern Madcaps Cartoon; 1961)

Promises, Promises (Broadway Musical; 1968)

The Return of the King (Film; 2003) [Lord of the Rings #3]

Sappy New Year (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1961)

The Shape of Water (Film; 2017)

The Shocker (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1970)

Sidney’s Family Tree, featuring Sidney (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1958)

The Simple Art of Murder, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1944)

Sour Grapes (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1950)

Stop, Look, and Listen (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1949)

Stunt Men (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1960)

Terry the Terror (Modern Madcaps Cartoon; 1960)

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), by Sly and the Family Stone (Song; 1969)

The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett (Novel; 1934)

The Toothless Beaver (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1965)

The Toy Man (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1969)

$21 a Day, Once a Month (Woody Woodpecker Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1941)

Two by Two (Modern Madcaps Cartoon; 1966)

Withering Heights, by Emily Bronte (Novel; 1847)

Woodman, Spare That Tree (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1950)

Today’s Name Days

Blanka, Charles, Eligius, Natalie (Austria)

Blanka, Florencija, Kazimir, Natalija, Naum (Croatia)

Iva (Czech Republic)

Arnold (Denmark)

Oskar, Osmar, Oss (Estonia)

Oskar, Oskari (Finland)

Florence (France)

Blanka, Eligius, Natalie (Germany)

Areti, Jacob, Naoum, Philaretos, Theoklitos (Greece)

Elza (Hungary)

Ansano, Eligio (Italy)

Arnolds, Arvaldis (Latvia)

Algmina, Butigeidas, Eligijus, Natalija (Lithuania)

Arnljot, Arnold, Arnt (Norway)

Długosz, Edmund, Eliga, Eligiusz, Iwa, Natalia, Natalis, Platon, Sobiesława (Poland)

Filaret, Naum (Romania)

Edmund (Slovakia)

Blanca, Cándida, Eloy (Spain)

Oskar, Ossian (Sweden)

Bianca, Blanca, Blanche, Eli, Ely, Sherwin (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 336 of 2024; 30 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 48 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Bing-Zi), Day 1 (Ji-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 30 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 29 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 6 Black; Sixthday [6 of 30]

Julian: 18 November 2024

Moon: 1%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 28 Frederic (12th Month) [Cromwell]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 70 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of December

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 10 of 30)

Calendar Changes

December (Gregorian Calendar) [Month 12 of 12]

冬月 [Dōngyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 11 of 12] (Winter Month) [Rat Month]

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Holidays 12.3

Holidays

Advocate's Day (India)

Alka Seltzer Day

Be a Blessing Day

Cedar Tree Day (French Republic)

Day of the Secretary (Chile)

Doctor’s Day (Cuba)

E-Discovery Day

Family & Consumer Sciences Day

Flag Day (Saba)

Flamenco Guitar Day

Heart Transplant Day

Inflatable Pig Day

International Baboon Day

International Day of Persons with Disabilities (UN)

International Day of the Basque Language

Jazz Day

King Tupou I Day (Tonga)

Let's Hug Day

Make a Gift Day

National Dorothy Day

National Harley Day

National Heather Day

National Isaac Day

National Lisa Day

National Phenylketonuria (PKU) Awareness Day

National Pig Tail Day

National Ronald Day

National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day

Reinvigorate Your Brain by Reading Something Day

Saba Day (Saba)

San Francisco Javier (Navarra, Spain)

Takata no Inoko (Peace & Good Harvest Festival; Japan)

Telescope Day

3D Printing Day

Tinsel Day

Tree Dressing Day (UK)

Walt Disney World Day

World No Pesticide Use Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Holiday Ale Festival begins (Portland, Oregon) [Begins in late Nov/early Dec] (Postponed for 2023)

International Trappist Beer Day

National Apple Pie Day [also 5.13]

National Green Bean Casserole Day

National Ice Cream Box Day

National Peppermint Latte Day

Roquefort Day

1st Sunday in December

1st Sunday in Advent [4th Sunday before Xmas] (a.k.a. ... 

Adventssonntag (Germany)

Advent Sunday

Hope Sunday

Midwinter Horn Blowing (Netherlands)

Good Neighborliness Day [1st Sunday]

World AIDS Sunday [1st Sunday]

World Ice Skating Day [1st Sunday]

Independence Days

Edenia (a.k.a. Imperial Union of Edenia; Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Illinois Statehood Day (#21; 1818)

Feast Days

Abbo of Auxerre (Christian; Saint)

Abraham of Alexandria, Pope (Coptic)

Adrian (a.k.a. Ethernan; Christian; Saint)

Birinus (Christian; Saint)

Bogatir Svatogor Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Bona Dea Festival (Roman Goddess of Good)

Cassian of Tangier (Christian; Saint)

Copernicus (Positivist; Saint)

Emma (of Lesum or of Bremen; Christian; Saint)

Festival for Serket/Selket (Scorpion Goddess; Ancient Egypt)

Francis Xavier (Christian; Saint)

Gilbert Stuart (Artology)

Godzilla Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

International Say No to Selfies Day (Pastafarian)

Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim (Christian; Blessed)

Lucius (Christian; Saint)

Max Meldrum (Artology)

Mengloth’s Day (Pagan)

Motorettes (Muppetism)

Pompaia (Procession to Zeus; Ancient Greece)

Sola (Christian; Saint)

Vibrator Day (Pastafarian)

Zephaniah (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 337 [68 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

The BBC Television Shakespeare (UK TV Series; 1978)

Black Swan (Film; 2010)

Brown Sugar, recorded by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1969)

Bullwinkle Cleans Up or The Desperate Showers (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 236; 1963)

Camelot (Broadway Musical; 1960)

The Chanukah Song, by Adam Sandler (Song; 1994)

Concerto in F, by George Gershwin (Piano Concerto; 1925)

Confess, by Patti Page (Song; 1947) [1st Recording with Overdubbed Vocals]

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground, recorded by Blind Willie Johnson (Song; 1927)

Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Charity Song; 1984)

Elvis (Comeback TV Special; 1968)

High Note (WB LT Cartoon; 1960)

House of Flying Daggers (Film; 2004)

A Leak in the Lake or The Drain Maker (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 235; 1963)

I Love You Phillip Morris (Film; 2010)

Justify My Love, by Madonna (Music Video; 1990)

Machine Head, recorded by Deep Purple (Album; 1971)

My Generation, by The Who (Album; 1965)

The Oregon Trail (Video Game; 1971)

The Power of the Dog, by Thomas Savage (Novel; 1967)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Christmas TV Special; 1964)

Rubber Soul, by The Beatles (Album; 1965)

Spud (Film; 2010)

A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1947)

Symphony #1 in A, by Edward Elgar (Symphony; 1908)

A Taste of Catnip (WB MM Cartoon; 1966)

Thanks to the Saint, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1957) [Saint #33]

Unknown Soldiers, by Väinö Linna (Novel; 1954)

The Weapon Shops of Isher, by A.E. van Vogt (Novel; 1951)

Wild (Film; 2014)

You’re Sixteen, by Ringo Starr (Song; 1973)

Today’s Name Days

Emma, Franz Xaver, Jason (Austria)

Franjo, Lucije, Sofonija (Croatia)

Svatoslav (Czech Republic)

Svend (Denmark)

Leiger, Leino (Estonia)

Meri, Vellamo (Finland)

François-Xavier, Xavier (France)

Franz Xaver, Jason (Germany)

Glykerios (Greece)

Ferenc, Olívia (Hungary)

Francesco, Saverio (Italy)

Daile, Evija, Jogita, Raita (Latvia)

Atalija, Audinga, Gailintas, Ksaveras (Lithuania)

Svein, Sveinung (Norway)

Franciszek, Kasjan, Ksawery, Lucjusz, Unimir (Poland)

Gheorghe (România)

Oldrich (Slovakia)

Francisco, Javier (Spain)

Lydia (Sweden)

Javier, Malcolm, Malcom, Malik, Xavier, Xaviera (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 337 of 2024; 28 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 48 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 21 (Yi-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 20 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 7 Zima; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 20 November 2023

Moon: 65%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 1 Bichat (13th Month) [Copernicus]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 71 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 12 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Bichat (Modern Science) [Month 13 of 13; Positivist]

[schorschidk]

🎄✨ Dritter Advent – noch schlummert er… 🎅💤

Der Weihnachtsmann gönnt sich noch ein kleines Nickerchen 🛌, denn schon bald beginnt seine große Reise um die Welt! 🌍🎁 Er sammelt Kraft 💪, damit er an Heiligabend fit für alle großen und kleinen Wünsche ist. 🛷🦌 Genießt die besinnliche Zeit des dritten Advents und tankt ebenfalls etwas Ruhe und Gemütlichkeit. 🕯️❤️

Frohen dritten Adventssonntag noch euch allen! 🎄🎅✨

[caprano]

So sieht es aus!

Nach menschlichen Maßstäben sollte Gott lieber im Himmel geblieben sein! Nichts wie Ärger auf dieser Erde!

Die Menschen wenden sich von ihm ab, wollen „autonom” sein, d.h. ihre eigenen Gesetze machen. Der Wille Gottes kann ihnen gestohlen bleiben. Und als sich Gott schließlich aufmacht, um ein Mensch zu werden, da erwartet ihn „am Anfang der Stall und am Ende der Galgen”, wie der Rhetoriker, Philologe und Schriftsteller Walter Jens gesagt hat.

Reichlich Stoff zum Nachdenken vor diesem letzten Adventssonntag. Im Advent packt viele Menschen mehr als sonst im Jahr eine sehnsüchtige Stimmung. Uns Deutschen bescheinigte ein französischer Philosoph eine Harmoniesehnsucht. Und irgendwo las ich sogar vom ‚klebrigen Einlullen in scheinbaren Frieden‘. Liebe als Gegengewicht in schwierigen Zeiten. Wärmende Herzlichkeit gegen soziale Spannungen. Ehrenamtlicher Einsatz gegen das Böse, das auch 2024 entgegen allen Schwüren viel stärker geworden ist. Schaffen wir das?

Advent ist ohne Frage eine schwierige und schöne Zeit. Ich freue mich jedes Jahr auf Lichter, Stimmung, Besinnung. Sie ist notwendig für das Leben. Die Seele stellt sich dem eigenen inneren Bedürfnis: Hinter allem Gerenne und Aktionismus hast du insgeheim dauernd innere Einkehr und Seelenfrieden gesucht. Advent ist Vorschau und Widerspiegelung unauslöschbarer Erwartungen, wie sie keiner sich selbst schaffen kann. Aber wir sind auf der beständigen Suche danach.

Willkommen also im Warteraum auf Gottes Zukunft.

[khamishassan]

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Magie des dritten Advents

Magie des dritte Advents · Vorweihnachtszeit · Liebe und Freude

Es war einmal in einem kleinen, verschneiten Dorf, das in der Vorweihnachtszeit besonders schön erstrahlte. Die Straßen waren festlich geschmückt, und der Duft von frisch gebackenen Plätzchen lag in der Luft. Es war das dritte Adventswochenende, und die Vorfreude auf das bevorstehende Weihnachtsfest war überall zu spüren. In diesem Dorf lebte ein kleiner Junge namens Lukas. Lukas hatte eine besondere Vorliebe für Weihnachten. Jedes Jahr zählte er die Tage bis zum Fest mit großer Vorfreude. An diesem dritten Adventssonntag bemerkte er jedoch etwas Ungewöhnliches. Während er mit seiner besten Freundin Mia im Schnee spielte, sahen sie ein schwaches, goldenes Licht, das aus dem Wald hinter dem Dorf strahlte. Neugierig beschlossen die beiden Kinder, dem Licht zu folgen. Sie stapften durch den tiefen Schnee und erreichten bald den Waldrand. Dort entdeckten sie eine kleine, versteckte Lichtung, auf der ein wunderschöner Weihnachtsbaum stand. Er war mit funkelnden Lichtern und buntem Schmuck geschmückt und schien in der kalten Winterluft zu leuchten. Plötzlich hörten sie ein leises Kichern. Als sie sich umdrehten, sahen sie einen kleinen Weihnachtselfen, der fröhlich um den Baum herumtanzte. »Willkommen! Ich bin Elfi«, stellte sich der Elf vor. »Ich habe diesen Baum für das Dorf geschmückt, aber ich brauche eure Hilfe!« Lukas und Mia waren begeistert und fragten sofort, wie sie helfen könnten. Elfi erklärte: »Jedes Jahr bringen die Kinder des Dorfes ihre Wünsche zu diesem Baum. Doch dieses Jahr sind die Wünsche verloren gegangen! Wir müssen sie wiederfinden, damit der Zauber von Weihnachten nicht verloren geht.« Gemeinsam mit Elfi machten sich sodann Lukas und Mia auf die Suche nach den verlorenen Wünschen. Sie durchstreiften den Wald und fanden schließlich kleine Zettel, die im Schnee lagen – es waren die Wünsche der Kinder aus dem Dorf! Jeder Zettel war mit einem liebevollen Wunsch beschriftet: »Ich wünsche mir Frieden«, »Ich wünsche mir ein neues Spielzeug« oder »Ich wünsche mir mehr Zeit mit meiner Familie«. Lukas und Mia sammelten die Zettel ein und brachten sie zurück zur Lichtung. Elfi lächelte dankbar und sagte: »Jetzt müssen wir diese Wünsche an den Baum hängen, damit sie wieder magisch werden!« Und als sie die Zettel am Baum befestigten, begann dieser zu leuchten und strahlte heller als je zuvor. Plötzlich erfüllte ein warmes Gefühl die Luft, und die Kinder spürten die Magie von Weihnachten in ihren Herzen. »Das ist der wahre Zauber von Weihnachten«, erklärte Elfi. »Es geht nicht nur um Geschenke, sondern um das Teilen von Liebe und Freude.« Lukas und Mia nickten begeistert. Sie verstanden nun, dass die besten Geschenke oft nicht materieller Natur sind, sondern in den kleinen Gesten des Gebens und Teilens liegen. Als der Abend hereinbrach, luden Lukas und Mia alle Dorfbewohner ein, zur Lichtung zu kommen. Gemeinsam feierten sie ein kleines Fest unter dem leuchtenden Weihnachtsbaum, sangen Lieder und erzählten Geschichten. Von diesem dritten Advent an wurde es zur Tradition im Dorf, dass jedes Jahr am dritten Adventssonntag alle Kinder ihre Wünsche zum Baum bringen durften – nicht nur für sich selbst, sondern auch für andere. So wurde der Zauber von Weihnachten lebendig gehalten. Magie des dritte Advents · Vorweihnachtszeit · Liebe und Freude Read the full article

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20241215  3. ADVENT

Gott beruft nicht die Fähigen, sondern er befähigt die Berufenen.Gott wählt auch immer den Weg,durch welchen er am Ende die meiste Ehre und die meiste Herrlichkeit bekommt. 神は有能な者を呼ばず、でも呼ばれる者に力を与えます神は常に道を選び、そこから彼はたどり着き最も名誉と栄光を得る Dieu n’appelle pas le capable,Mais il donne du pouvoir à ceux qui sont appelés.Dieu choisit toujours le chemin,par lequel il finit.obtient le plus d’honneur et de…

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Der Adventskranz

Die runde Form symbolisiert die Ewigkeit Gottes.

Das grüne Tannengrün steht für Leben und Hoffnung.

Die Kerzen (vier insgesamt) repräsentieren die vier Adventswochen. Die erste Kerze ist der Anfang des Weges hin zur Erfüllung der Verheißung in Jesus Christus. Jesaja 9,1-6: „Das Volk, das im Dunkeln lebt, sieht ein helles Licht“

Die erste Kerze am Adventskranz symbolisiert Hoffnung. Sie steht für das Licht, das mit der Ankunft Christi in die Dunkelheit der Welt gebracht wird. Die brennende Kerze ist ein Zeichen der Erwartung und des Glaubens an das Heil, das mit dem Messias verbunden ist. Die Ankunft des Herrn: Der Begriff "Advent" kommt vom lateinischen adventus und bedeutet "Ankunft". Im ersten Adventssonntag liegt der Fokus auf der Erwartung der Wiederkunft Christi in Herrlichkeit, nicht nur auf seiner Geburt. Wachsamkeit und Hoffnung: Die Lesungen und Gebete des ersten Adventssonntags laden die Gläubigen ein, wachsam zu bleiben und sich innerlich auf das Kommen Christi vorzubereiten. Die Kirche ruft zur Umkehr, zum Gebet und zur geistlichen Erneuerung auf.

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die weihnachtszeit beginnt mit dem ersten adventssonntag. vorher nicht

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Holidays 12.1

Holidays

Antarctica Day

Applejack Day (My Little Pony)

Basketball Day

Battle of the Sinop Day (Russia)

Becky Thatcher Day

Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day

Bizarre Bazaar

Carbon Management Day

Chia Pet Hunting Season begins

Civil Air Patrol Day

Commemoration Day (UAE)

Crossing of the Cattle at Diafarabe (Mali)

Damrong Rajanuhab Day (Thailand)

Data Innovation Day

Day of the First President (Kazakhstan)

Day With(out) Art

First Day of Meteorological Summer Day (Southern Hemisphere)

First Day of Meteorological Winter Day (Northern Hemisphere)

First President Day (Kazakhstan)

Fishmas

Flag Day (Saba)

Freedom and Democracy Day (Chad)

Fullveldisdagurinn (a.k.a. Self-Governance Day; Iceland)

Good Neighborliness Day (Turkmenistan)

Ice Hockey Day (Russia)

Indigenous Faith Day (Arunachal, India)

International Prisoners for Peace Day

International Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency Day

James Gandolfini Day (New Jersey)

Karakalpak Language Day (Karakalpak Peoples)

Lawyer’s Day (Belarus)

Lewdmas

Military Abolition Day (Costa Rica)

MLM Day (Russia)

Motion Pictures Day (Japan)

My Husband Strung the Xmas Lights and Now I Can't Open the Garage Door Day

National Biliary Atresia Awareness Day

National Christmas Book Day

National Christmas Lights Day

National Cookie Cutter Day

National Day of Courage

National Grinch Day

National I Told You So Day

National Jandal Day (New Zealand)

National Online Risk and Compliance Day

National Sabbath-Keeping Schools Day

National Transit Tribute to Rosa Parks Day

National Twin With Your Dog Day (UK)

National Water Safety Day (Australia)

National Women Support Women Day

National Zinc Day

Neurologist Day

Operation Santa Paws begins [until 21st]

Peaceful Easy Feeling Day (San Diego, California)

Playboy Magazine Day

Prisoners for Peace Day

Prosecutors’ Day (Ukraine)

Rosa Parks Day (Ohio, Oregon) [also 2.4]

Scrabble Day

Singh Cultural Day (Pakistan)

Teachers’ Day (Panama)

University Student Strike Day (Myanmar)

Wallace & Gromit’s Great British Tea Party begins (thru 21st)

Wax Day (French Republic)

Wear a Dress Day [also 6.1]

Weather Service Day

White Rabbit Day

World AIDS Day (UN)

Yukon Order of Pioneers Day

Ziua Unirii (Romania)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Dr. Pepper Day

Eat A Red Apple Day

Glögg Day (Sweden)

International Maratheftiko Day

MMMHop Beer Day

National Baked Alaska Day

National Fried Pie Day

National Peppermint Bark Day

National Pie Day [also 1.23]

Independence & Related Days

Central African Republic (Proclamation of the Republic; 1958)

Great Union Day (celebrating merger of Transylvania & Romania, 1918)

Iceland (from Denmark, 1918)

Nagaland (State Inauguration Day; India)

Portugal (from Spain, 1640) [a.k.a. Restoration of Independence]

Sancratosia (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

1st Sunday in December

Artist’s Sunday [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Cyber Safety Sunday [1st Sunday]

1st Sunday in Advent [4th Sunday before Xmas] (a.k.a. ... 

Adventssonntag (Germany)

Advent Sunday

Hope Sunday

Midwinter Horn Blowing (Netherlands)

Good Neighborliness Day [1st Sunday]

Museum Store Sunday [1st Sunday]

National AIDS Sunday (Philippines) [1st Sunday]

National Secondhand Day [1st Sunday]

Pasadena Doo Dah Parade [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Seven For Sunday [Every Sunday]

Small Brewery Sunday [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Snack Sunday [1st Sunday of Each Month]

Spiritual Sunday [1st Sunday of Each Month]

Start Over Sunday [1st Sunday of Each Month]

Sundae Sunday [Every Sunday]

Sunday Funday [Every Sunday]

Tropical Tree Day (Australia) [1st Sunday]

World AIDS Sunday [1st Sunday]

World Ice Skating Day [1st Sunday]

World Meditation Day [1st Sunday of Every Month]

Weekly Holidays beginning December 1 (1st Full Week of December)

Advent (thru 12.24) [4th Sunday before Xmas]

Clerc-Gallaudet Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

Cookie Cutter Week (thru 12.7) [1st Week]

Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week (thru 12.7) [1st Week]

National Hand Washing Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

National Influenza Vaccination Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

National Pet Suffocation Awareness Week (thru 12.7) [Week after Thanksgiving]

Older Driver Safety Awareness Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

Recipe Greetings for the Holidays Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

Tolerance Week (thru 12.7) [1st Full Week]

Festivals Beginning December 1, 2024

Christmas in Newport (Newport, Rhode Island) [thru 12.31]

Christmas on the Comstock (Virginia City, Nevada) [thru 12.31]

Hollywood Christmas Parade (Hollywood, Los Angeles, California)

Jazz Bez (Lviv, Ukraine) [thru 12.10]

Kabakahan Festival (Padre Garcia, Philippines)

Night of the Proms (Oberhausen, Germany)

Rome Christmas Market (Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy) [thru 1.6.2025]

Vintage Christmas in Portsmouth (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) [thru 12.31]

Feast Days

Alexander Briant (Christian; Saint)

Ansanus (Christian; Saint)

Azar Nafisi (Writerism)

Barbes Diena (Sheep Fertility Festival; Ancient Latvia)

Beware the Pogonip (Frozen Fog Season; Native American)

Billy Childish (Artology)

Bodhi Season, Day 1 (Buddhism; Secular Date) [Leading Up to 12.8] (a.k.a. ... 

Principles: The One

Secular: Buddhism is a Skill

Eightfold Path: Awakened View

The Heart Sutra: The Universe Between #000000 and #FFFFFF

Bruna Pellesi (Christian; Blessed)

Candace Bushnell (Writerism)

Carnival of Celendonia (Shamanism)

Castritian (Christian; Saint)

Charles de Foucauld (Christian; Blessed)

Cromniomancy Day (Onion Divination; Everyday Wicca)

Deer’s Cry (Celtic Book of Days)

Edmund Campion (Christian; Saint)

Eligius (a.k.a. Eloy), Bishop of Noyon (Christian; Saint)

Eligiusz Niewiadomski (Artology)

Étienne Maurice Falconet (Artology)

Evasius (Christian; Saint)

Feast for the Death of Aleister Crowley (Thelema)

Feast of Saints Kyle, Stan, Cartman and Kenny (Church of the SubGenius; Saints)

Festival for Neptune/Poseidon (Ancient Greece/Rome)

Festival for Pietas (Goddess of Devotion; Ancient Rome)

Francia (Positivist; Saint)

Grwst (Christian; Saint)

Juner (Muppetism)

Kalends of December (Ancient Rome)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Artology)

Marijuana Sauce Day (Pastafarian)

Mindfulness Day (Zen Buddhism)

Mothra Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Nahum (Christian; Saint)

Nicholas Ferrar (Episcopal Church)

Ralph Sherwin (Christian; Saint)

Shiva’s Day (Pagan)

Ursicinus of Brescia (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Adventures of Don Juan (Film; 1948)

Africa (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

Alice and the Three Bears (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1924)

Axis: Bold As Love, by Jimi Hendrix (Album; 1967)

Baron Van Go-Go (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1967)

Beaver Trouble (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1951)

Beebo Saves Christmas (WB Animated TV Special)

The Big Freeze (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1970)

Blondie, by Blondie (Album; 1976)

The Booze Hangs High (WB LT Cartoon; 1930)

Candide, by Leonard Bernstein (Operetta; 1956)

A Charlie Brown Christmas, by Vince Guarldi (Soundtrack Album; 1965)

Christmas Vacation (Film; 1989)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain (Novel; 1884)

Daniel Boone, Jr. (Hector Heathcote Cartoon; 1960)

Dark (German TV Series; 2017)

Enchanters’ End Game, by David Eddings (Novel; 1984) [Belgariad #5]

The Farmer and the Belle (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1950)

Fiddling’ Around (Noveltoons Cartoons; 1962)

A Flight to the Finish (Hector Heathcote Cartoon; 1962)

The Floating Admiral, by the Detection Club (Mystery Novel; 1931)

Flop Secret (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1952)

Follow Me Boys (Film; 1966)

The Girl Can’t Help It (Rock Music Film; 1956)

Gooney Golfers (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1948)

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (Novel; 1836)

Growing Pains (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1953)

Happy Xmas (War Is Over), by John Lennon (Song; 1971)

The Haunted Cat (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1951)

Hi, Hi, Hi, by Wings (Song; 1972)

The Hitch-Hiker (Hashimoto Cartoon; 1939)

HMS Pinafore, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Operetta; 1879)

Honorable House Cat (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1961)

The House of the Rising Sun, by Frijid Pink (Song; 1969)

The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea (Collected Novels; 1975)

Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (Novel; 1900)

The Leaky Faucet (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1959)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen, by Laurence Sterne (Novel; 1759)

The Magic Slipper (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1948)

The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett (Novel; 1930)

Miceniks (Noveltoons Cartoons; 1960)

Molecular Mixup (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1964)

Mother Goose’s Birthday Party (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1950)

Mount Piney (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1968)

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Film; 1989)

No Logo, by Naomi Klein Book; 1999)

Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (Novel; 1817) [#5]

Ollie the Owl (Noveltoons Cartoons; 1963)

One of the Family (Modern Madcaps Cartoon; 1962)

Oswald Holiday Greeting Card (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 2013)

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Disney Cartoon; 2022)

Paint Pot Symphony (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1950)

The Phantom Skyscraper (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1966)

The Philadelphia Story (Film; 1940)

Picnic with Papa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1952)

Playboy Magazine (Adult Magazine; 1953)

The Plot Sickens (Modern Madcaps Cartoon; 1961)

Promises, Promises (Broadway Musical; 1968)

The Return of the King (Film; 2003) [Lord of the Rings #3]

Sappy New Year (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1961)

The Shape of Water (Film; 2017)

The Shocker (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1970)

Sidney’s Family Tree, featuring Sidney (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1958)

The Simple Art of Murder, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1944)

Sour Grapes (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1950)

Stop, Look, and Listen (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1949)

Stunt Men (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1960)

Terry the Terror (Modern Madcaps Cartoon; 1960)

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), by Sly and the Family Stone (Song; 1969)

The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett (Novel; 1934)

The Toothless Beaver (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1965)

The Toy Man (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1969)

$21 a Day, Once a Month (Woody Woodpecker Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1941)

Two by Two (Modern Madcaps Cartoon; 1966)

Withering Heights, by Emily Bronte (Novel; 1847)

Woodman, Spare That Tree (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1950)

Today’s Name Days

Blanka, Charles, Eligius, Natalie (Austria)

Blanka, Florencija, Kazimir, Natalija, Naum (Croatia)

Iva (Czech Republic)

Arnold (Denmark)

Oskar, Osmar, Oss (Estonia)

Oskar, Oskari (Finland)

Florence (France)

Blanka, Eligius, Natalie (Germany)

Areti, Jacob, Naoum, Philaretos, Theoklitos (Greece)

Elza (Hungary)

Ansano, Eligio (Italy)

Arnolds, Arvaldis (Latvia)

Algmina, Butigeidas, Eligijus, Natalija (Lithuania)

Arnljot, Arnold, Arnt (Norway)

Długosz, Edmund, Eliga, Eligiusz, Iwa, Natalia, Natalis, Platon, Sobiesława (Poland)

Filaret, Naum (Romania)

Edmund (Slovakia)

Blanca, Cándida, Eloy (Spain)

Oskar, Ossian (Sweden)

Bianca, Blanca, Blanche, Eli, Ely, Sherwin (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 336 of 2024; 30 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 48 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Bing-Zi), Day 1 (Ji-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 30 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 29 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 6 Black; Sixthday [6 of 30]

Julian: 18 November 2024

Moon: 1%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 28 Frederic (12th Month) [Cromwell]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 70 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of December

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 10 of 30)

Calendar Changes

December (Gregorian Calendar) [Month 12 of 12]

冬月 [Dōngyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 11 of 12] (Winter Month) [Rat Month]