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Katie MercyGrace on Nostr: I just realized that with all that has gone on today I didn't keep with one of my ...

I just realized that with all that has gone on today I didn't keep with one of my traditions, that being the 12 days of Christmas, this being the first:
On the 1st day of Christmas my True Love (the Lord God Almighty) gave to me:
A partridge in a pear tree = Jesus Christ
The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, whose birthday we celebrate on December 25, the first day of Christmas. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge that feigns injury to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, recalling the expression of Christ's sadness over the fate of Jerusalem: "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered you under My wings, as a hen does her chicks, but you would not have it so . . . ." (Luke 13:34)
(http://www.crivoice.org/cy12days.html Several other pages give some discussion of this, but I think this is the best I've found also:
http://alchemipedia.blogspot.com/.../twelve-12-days-of...)