Farfar’s Farfetched Fables

Sunday December 31 - The Feast of the Holy Family

Readings for Sunday December 31, 2023, the Feast of the Holy Family.  

Paul Bunyan Chapter 10 - Paul’s Pets

As one can well imagine, a personality as large as Paul's would necessarily have room for some unusual characters in his world.  This includes a number of Paul's best friends in the animal kingdom.  We've already heard much about Babe, the Great Blue Ox.  In this chapter we hear more of Jerry and Jinny the Mule Team, Betsy the Yaller Cow and Elmer, the Moose Terrier who gets cut in two when Paul mistakes him for a rat in the middle of the night.  Don't worry though, Paul is able to put Elmer back together and everything is just fine, sort of...

Paul Bunyan Chapter 9 - Paul Bunyan Logs Off The Dakotas

Now that Paul's Red River Camp is up and established, he and his lumberjacks begin the work of clearing North and South Dakota, turning those lands into the Great Plains we know today.

The Gospel According to St. Luke - An Angel Visits Mary

On the 4th Sunday of Advent we hear the story of the Visitation of St. Gabriel to a virgin named Mary who is to become the mother of Jesus.

Paul Bunyan Chapter 8 - The Red River Camp

Paul get his Midwestern lumber camp set up and starts in earnest logging in Minnesota.  

A reading according to the Gospel of St. Luke

The story of the birth of John the Baptist

Paul Bunyan Chapter 6 - The Little Blue Ox

Paul goes deer hunting with some surprising results.  Later, he acquires a little blue ox calf from a farmer.  

Paul Bunyan Chapter 5 - Paul’s Camp in Maine

Paul set off into Deacon Whites district to start his logging operation and meets up with the famed Seven Axmen.  

Paul Bunyan Chapter 4 - Paul’s Return

Now a full grown man, Paul returns to the town of his birth and is offered his first real job:  logging in the deep woods of Deacon White.  But first he has to clear the woods of fierce wild animals.

Paul Bunyan Chapter 3 - Paul’s Boyhood

As Paul grows from infancy to boyhood, many challenges face his parents in raising such a large youngster.  We follow Paul as he becomes a young man discovering all his strengths and talents, and by the end of the chapter he meet the perfect girl.