We took our children to Midnight Mass each Christmas Season. On one particular night, a new parish priest was officiating. During the Homily portion of the service, he called all the young children [ages 2-5] to the altar steps. He sat down on the altar steps with them and proceeded to tell the tale of Joseph’s Lamp; Mary’s journey into Bethlehem. Toward the end of the story, he asked the children, “What did Mary have?”
One little red-headed girl [think of Margaret in the Charlie Brown comic strip] could hardly contain herself as she shouted, “I know, I know!” The priest recognized her and asked, “Well, then, what did Mary have?” The little girl stood up and positioned herself in a perfect ballet #2 position and said: “Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow…!”
