A brief history of Christmas
December 25, 2007
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Christmas famously “comes but once a year.” In fact, however, it comes twice. The Christmas of the Nativity, the manger and Christ child, the wise
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Crocodile outside stable?
December 25, 2007
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What animals were there when baby Jesus was born?
Matthew, age six: “There were sheep, horses and a crocodile outside the stable.” Ruby, age six: “At his birth there were oxens, a donkey, three camels, three birds – all white – and three cats, all black.”
Top 10 carols
December 25, 2007
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without singing a few carols, but what are the origins of the familiar words and tunes we sing every year? Read
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas Sermon
December 25, 2007
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Rowan Williams draws on the writings of St. John of the Cross in his Christmas sermon: And the angels sing at the wedding in Bethlehem, the marriage of heaven and earth, where, in the haunting final stanza of the great poetic sequence, humanity senses the joy of God himself, and the only one in the scene who is weeping is the child, the child who is God in the flesh:
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