Wednesday, December 22, 1993 The Castlegar Sun Page 7B Page 6B The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, December 22, 1993 — - ‘9 — 2 Examining the true ingredients of a Christmas Pie secular vuadied fruu And therein Ie fishike to Abbot Richard and = Pie Oontinuee Honea from “protectors") and were Irying to stamp out royalist and heathenish customs. Spies abounded, chimney pots were scanned for tell-tale smoke indicating the possible prepara (le more than a dozen years but thon of “Babylonish baked changed the course of English Meats”. housewives were fined history. tt did not, however, for festal Cookery and their hus: change the composition of the week against these superstitious Sabbaths and another asked tronically, “Is he that eats a Christmas pye a malignant?” The Protectorate lasted a lit Christmas ritual - reread for the fortieth time Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, and I°1) from scratch, had dropped the finely chipped beef from the recipe when she made that annual two gallon crock of listen yet once again to the Christmas mince-meat which glories of Handel's “Messi Sat in the pantry and perfumed ah" (recorded if necessary) the house with glorious odors A very merry Christmas to The lattice-crusted pies and you all icing-sugar-dusted tartlets, bands jailed for cutting Yule Christmas pie while smaller, were just as logs. lt was a dangerous and My precious White House much a part of the Cheisimes GS STAR GROCERY fat et i IMPORTED ITALIAN FOODS In The Gulch" unhappy time Cookbook. Copyright 1887, — feast as their gigantic earlier Starts off its Astor House oe just as welcome ee 328 Rossland Ave., Trail » 364-1824 FAX 364-1839 - EV 364-1638 mince pie recipe with “four lappily, I too married an Ss men mounted their pulpits to pounds of lean boiled beef. o become martyrs for Christmas finely chopped, tart apples, Day, while one writer of the raisins, Currents, spices cider” many willy if short-lived pam- etc., little changed from the ph 2 eptrcndnl haat rym * % LIQUEUR CHOCOLATES 1704 box 4.95 * SAN DANIELLE PROSCIUTTO * SAN DANIELLE MORTADELLA phlets wrote sarcastically lime of Henry and the Abbot, “Who would have thought that four hundred years earlier. %* ROMANO CHEESE .ups w. 5.95 * UNICO OLIVES 1.09 al muscular servants while guests helped themselves as it passed by Similar if simpler pies would be prepared for the lord's ser ind one of my The pastry in question was probably a mince pie and a spe realized his danger, and thought cial delicacy in the Middle the lame of the Dissolution of i expedient to placate the king . Ages. It consisted of finely chopped meat, mixed with ipples, dried fruit such as cur vants and tenants and placed in rents and raisins, as well as the foyer of the great dining spices (more expensive than hall, and all noble and com gold in those days), cider, per moner considered that even a fumes and occasionally song small taste of this Christmas birds (remember the rhyme Pye assured them of good for Four and twenty Blackbirds tune for the twelve months of Baked in a Pie") the coming year These delicacies were often Then there is a later story gigantic, sometimes weighing which reads with an all too several hundred pounds, and familiar ring: “THE: GOVERN would be carried around the MENT, having debated the mat lord's Christmas table by sever ter carefully, decided to bar the festival of Christmas as being Little Jack Homer Sut ima corner Eating his Christmas Pic D to the subject of i nonsense doggere! the prick John Gack) Horner lived jn Richard, who was nobody's fool He put in his thumb And pulled out a plum And sad. “What a pood b 1 One must keep in anv | Fcourse, that a “plum wito the very wealthy Richard He ordered the Abbey cooks yoth a very hang Whig, Abbot of the great there lors to bake a huge monastery of Glastonbury Christmas pie or pastry. Under Abbot Whiting, who enjoyed the crust of the pie he then hid the monasteric under the rule by sending him a rich Christmas of Heary VITEand he was stew present hE learned ‘as a part Charters peared to his new estate leaving the stage of history forever The abbot was less fortunate He was framed by one of the kings more notorious hatchet men and died rather messily as a traitor on the hill over-look ing Glastonbury. The abbey today is a magnificent, much visited and legendary ruin. But that is another story Christmas stones, tor m always embrace a rang um of money und a piece of Avery ertravagant life-style the deeds for a dozen rich and particularly loved to eat estates, one each for the days of had o huge kitchen built at the the Epiphany, the “twelve Days ranch " Abbey. It was the most modern 7 and largest in England, a fact Sundays 12 pm -6 p which enabled him to use coal Mon, - Thurs. 2 pm- 10 pm a luxury in Tudor times long journey, Horner lifted the Fri. - Sat. }] am- 117 pm Henry, who didn't like being — cover of the pie, “put in his second in the realm;to anyone, thumb: and removed one of the it had been a sin to serve G B Bingo every Thursday : incompatible with the aims and : (9 serve: Gos By the time I was a boy, = took a strong and unconcealed é before? I pray you then let us though, my mother, an excel- Ovecis —_ soonalbars welcome! 701 7 | — ue prey pr actnea eanih: have an ordinance this next — lent cook who made everything jumbia Ave., Castlegar > 248 Co! -s 9 fs , ment, the oppression of Christ mas trees, Christmas gifts, Nonetheless, there was wide resistance. Courageous clergy excellent cook whose Christ- mas pies and tarts still glad- den my heart and- stomach and stir up a thousand memo- ries of other days. No plums, though - real or otherwise And while I wait in anticipa- tion for this year's offering I'll repeat my annual pre- ot Christmas and told John Horner to deliver it to the King While he was making the “ See PIE deeds (“a plum") and disap — Wilts | aoe Mh ‘eee Greetings From (he managanent & ff of Gome celebrate & dine with us for Birthdays, « baniverssartes : & Spe ctal QOccastons party of 3 will receive one FREE MEAL pf eqical value to others December Lunch Special — Your favorite CREPES $ >- DS mn served with Coeser Salad RS ES 1101 - 2nd Street Castlegar Jelivery & Reservations 365-2188 NOW SHOWING! WEDNESDAY THURSDAY NO MOVIES _ Fri) SAT FRI ecemner 24 25 A” 31 A very Merry Christmas to aur many patrons from the NMlanagement and Staff SUN MON TUE WED THU 26 27 28 29 30 DECEMBER Cre LE MBIA AVENUE SF _ ENTER TO WIN TO THE CASTLE THEATRE RED MOUNTAIN SKI SHUTTLE Lift Tickets Frequent User Discounts 365-0211 GIFT IDEAS... 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REC CENTRE complement Weekdy drawsl No ph Just drop off newspaper coupon at the Castlegar Sun - 465 Columbia Ave. 442-3784 © 442-8819 Tke Castiggar Sur copies please Members of the Ootischenia Fire Deperenent delivered more than 1 000 food items as well as cash to the Castlegar Royal Canadian Legion to be used in their food hampers. The supplies were donated by over 300 Ootischenia residents. SUN STAFF PHOTO /John Van Putten Women’s meeting ‘beary’ enjoyable business woman, wife, mother. vrandmother and seamstress. The theme for next month's dinner meeting is Winter-Time uring “Time Management the Christian Women’s dinner man, Shirley Moon, and gave withe Emily Beauchamp as meeting held Thursday the wreath as the hostes shares her keys to being December 9 atthe F i Soloist Heather Snauwaer inived Inn. Christmas wa tdded to the festive atmo special ynspirational where Tedd beara heer whh Pp ab Christ ' r Re vn Austin. ts a Dinah Lutze of Tulips Floral Submitted Co. as she demonstrated th art-of making a corsage and “Have a Beary Merry live wreath. She presented the Christmas” was the theme -tor vrsage to the feature chai Ments graced th rch tbl of Christmas activitic lection’ Later in th focal active and dynamic J » Plan ahead and lepicuny a nin in Yule had f undivided att n January 13 Pitty nh women eny bared ab @ B.C. Tel feasting and merrymaking, either in public or in private.” A peep at the future of “political correctness” dictator ship? The future, no; but a dicta torship, yes. It occurred in the Year of Grace, 1647, when the Puritans ruled Britain under the Protectorship of Oliver Cromwell (the Lord protect me IG 0 TIRES WE HAVE ‘ CABLE CHAINS} | i="? 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DAVID'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 614 Christina Place Dec. 24 Christmas Eve 7 pm Family Service w/ Eucharist 11 pm Holy Communion, BAS. Contemporary (Carol Sing begins at 10:45 pm) Dec. 26: 0800 Holy Communion - B.C.P 10:00 Family Eucharist The Rev. Canon Dorothy Barker Phone: 365-2271 TO KNOW CHRIST AND TO MAKE HIM KNOWN RC: The Presbyterian Church in Canada GRACE PRESBYTERIAN 2605 Columbia Ave. Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m. Need a ride to church? Call 365-2438 Rev. Murray Garvin 1-226-7540 * 365-2438 Calva Bapelet Church Musical Presentation of “The First Noél” 10:45 am Dec. 19th 6:30 pm Evening Service Candlelight Service 7:00 pm Dec. 24th Pastor Bob Marsh 365-3430 - Church 809 Merry Creek Rd Castlegar Join us at GOD CARES SPECIAL EVENTS Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 7:00 pm Rankin Mie te Pope [ wc! ||| = || ww, bh | | i ____ABible Based, I \ Spirit Filled, | ALL ||) Pamily Church \ PAE EPOWSiP 2329 6th Ave., Castlegar * 365-5818 Pastors Stuart & Lionor Laurie iii Wiest tees sce et SUNDAY MORNING WORSH ss ‘= dren EVENING CELEBRATION 6:30 pm WEDNESDAY FAMILY FEL :30 - ’ outh Ministries * Victorious Women « Men’s Fellowship WATCH FAITH ALIVE ON sHAW CABLE 10 #98 \ffiliated with Canadian Fellowship of Churches & Ministers LIVING WATERS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY K ** RAISING TOMORROW Individualized Curriculaem > LEADERS «+ WHAT ABOUT THE LONELY? Submitted by: Pastor Rankin McGougan, New Life Assembly The private pain felt by the hurt and lonely in our community is very real, and comes from all segments of society. “TIS THE SEASON TO BE LONELY” is a more accurate refrain echoing loudest in the hearts of many who have; lost a loved one, endured a family break-up, struggled with a debilitating illness, lived through abuse in any form, and the list goes on and on and on. The haunting sounds of “FA LA LA LA LA” echo aimlessly in the halls of our emptiness while the glitz and glitter of Christmas apparel fail miserably in their attempt to hide the inner pain. Yet there has to be an answer! In light of the reality of the needs reflected in the faces of family, friends and even strangers, I want to take this opportunity to challenge, not only the Christian community but also the communities as a whole. Sensitivity and awareness are great as far as they go. But we need to stretch beyond sensitivity to people's needs and move into the realm of helping those in need. We shout from our lofty steeples our denunciation of the crass commercialism of today's Christmas. We philosophize in our ivory towers over the moral ramifications of how a venerated Monk from Lycia, who gave freely of himself and all he had to those in need, evolved into a miniature overweight elf giving only to those he deems to have earned it. We guard with tenacious intensity our cold-hard cash from the avalanche of charities CASTLEGAR UNITED CHURCH 2224 - 6th Ave., Castlegar Ph. 365-8337 Minister: The Rev. Ann Pollock 7:00 pm Christmas Eve Service Dee. 26, 10 am Famity Service CASTLEGAR FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP 1801 Connors Rd. Sunday School 9:45 am Sunday Morning Worship 10:45 am Evening Fellowship 6:30 pm Wednesday Bible Study & Prayer 7:00 pm Friday Youth Activities 7:00 pm A loving, caring church invites your participation. You are welcome here! Home of Castlegar Christian Academy 365-7818 Pastor Stan Block 365-6317 capitalizing on the seasons. All of this may serve to stimulate our mental faculties but does little to alleviate need. “PEACE ON EARTH GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN” and “BE OF GOOD CHEER’ is much more than religious rhetoric. What originated as an angelic prelude was followed by a message of “GOOD NEWS’, the promise of “COMFORT AND JOY” was followed by God giving Himself. Whether you consider yourself an agnostic, or an atheist, a fundamentalist, or a liberal, a Garfield or a Scrooge, try stretching yourself beyond your comfort zone and allow the example of God, Giving of Himself to a needy world, motivate your actions during this season . Sit with, listen to, spend time with and give a little of yourself to someone to whom this may be the season of loneliness, and watch how the Lord uses you to bring a little comfort and joy into someone's life