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A Message from Archbishop Hepworth

The Octave of Christmas is a time of richness and of confrontation.  Richness because of the great liturgical and popular tradition that takes us day by day into events and places that deepen our faith in the Christ Child. The … Continue reading

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Urbi et Orbi Message for Christmas 2009

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Rome and throughout the world, and all men and women, whom the Lord loves! “Lux fulgebit hodie super nos, quia natus est nobis Dominus. A light will shine on us this day, the Lord is … Continue reading

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Leo the Great, Sermon 21 – On the Lord's Nativity

These are the Monastic Breviary Lessons from the second Nocturn of Christmas Matins. The translation used here is taken from the 1961 edition by the Society of the Sacred Cross in south Wales. Pope Saint Leo the Great is most … Continue reading

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The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

The Twenty-Fifth Day of December In the 5199th year of the creation of the world, from the time when God in the beginning created the heaven and the earth; the 2957th year after the flood; the 2015th year from the … Continue reading

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A Christmas Message from Archbishop Falk

“It was a cold, gray day near the end of December.  The East Wind was streaming through the bare branches of the trees, and seething in the dark pines on the hills.  As the cheerless shadows of the early evening … Continue reading

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