The meaning of Christmas
A reflection by Professor Peter Hunter Christmas means different things to different people. For the young children of families who […]
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Christmas Reflections
Christmas Reflections
Keeping Jesus warm
On Christmas Day we celebrate the fact that the Word became flesh. Or, to use a profound phrase of Benedict
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Christmas Reflections
Nativity play nerves
Nativity plays. Everybody has either been in one or watched one. Sr ROSE POWER of Groblersdal reminisces about nativity plays and the
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Christmas Short Stories
Yehonatan and the baby
A short story by Louis Mallett He was street-child of his day, and Yehonatan’s mother had him up at first
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Christmas Short Stories
The bell of St Raphael
A short story by Fr Ralph de Hahn Port Raphael, on the Cape’s West Coast, was just a small insignificant
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Christmas Reflections
Time and eternity meet on crossroads
Wherever Christian hearts beat, the holy night of Christmas draws millions together, writes Mgr JAN JAWORSKI. During the silent and
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Christmas Reflections
God’s special gift to us
By Archbishop Denis Hurley OMI About 15 billion years ago a cosmic blast occurred that we have come to call
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Christmas Reflections
Scrooge still haunts us
By Owen Williams The visible aspects of the English-speaking Christmas owe much to Charles Dickens (1812-1870), particularly of course to
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Christmas Short Stories
The Christmas visitor
A short story by Malcolm Theunissen It was a hot and humid afternoon in December 1965 when a balding stranger
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