Gabriel planted the "Christmas wheat" on St. Lucy's feast day. It is growing nicely. This idea comes from an old Hungarian custom and I have a bit of Hungarian descent from my father's side. "The children carry it to the creche as a gift for the Child Jesus, symbolic of the Eucharistic bread by which He feeds our souls at the altar as well as of the staff of life by which His father keeps life in our bodies." ~The Year and Our Children by Mary Newland
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