Sankta Lucia 12/13/2021 "Lucy Day"

[dado potato]

Today marks the start of a time of celebration that I carry on until January 5 (Twelfth Night). Sometimes solemn, more often merry, a time for reclosing circles of family and friendship. We northern people also observe the longest night and the return of longer days. I understand that in what is now Sweden, Christian monks arrived around 1100 AD with stories of Saint Lucia of Syracuse, a patron saint of the blind.

The link below includes a youtube video the Portland Nordic Chorus performing "Sankta Lucia" in December 2020 (with English subtitles).

Wishing All peace and joy never-ending.

http://www.nordicnorthwest.org/post/lucia-day-at-home-2021

[Tybee]

"Wake up, Lucia comes today, O, be glad! Lucia comes in bright array To light the way to Christmas day! "

[happystuff]

And wishing the same back to you!