Jan. 1: Happy Jesus’ Circumcision
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“Happy New Year” in Chinuk Wawa might surprise you!
Read this personal message from the priest, Father Le Jeune of Kamloops, in his “Chinook Book of Devotions throughout the Year”:
< January 1. >
—–< Circumcision of J.C. >
—–Ukuk son Nyu Iiir.
‘Today is New Year’s.’“Naika tiki pus maika tlus ukuk
‘ “I want you to be good this’
chi Nyu Iiir; naika tiki pus wik maika
‘new New Year’s; I want you to not’
sik, pus wik maika klahawiam, pi
‘be sick, to not be miserable, and’
pus maika klatwa Ø sahali ilihi pus
‘for you to go (to) heaven when’
maika mimlus.”
‘you die.” ‘
