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		<title>Pope: Open Your Hearts to Baby Jesus</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sermon by Emmanuel Suntheni OSB &#8211;  The Holy Family Of Jesus, Mary And Joseph &#8211; Year A Sermon And Christian Act [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Big Christmas Quiz! How much do you know about Christmas? Take our Quiz and see. Which Gospel has the shepherds [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Blessed Christmas to you all, and may God&#8217;s light shine brightly in our hearts.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[By Fr Mathibela Sebothoma &#8211; Father Christmas, as we know him today, is largely a creation of capitalism. Yet generosity does [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[On the first Christmas of World War I, 110 years ago, enemy soldiers on the Western front decided that, just [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Sermon by Emmanuel Suntheni OSB &#8211; The Nativity Of The Lord &#8211; Year A Sermon And Christian Act In The Word Theme: “The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[In his annual feature on the background of a popular Christmas hymn, Günther Simmermacher looks at a carol that involves [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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