Category: Religion
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Keeping Christmas
The Ghosts of Christmas taught Scrooge to keep Christmas with charity; they also taught him to keep it with joy.
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The Feast of Hallowmas
You can tell the strange disconnect between the holidays of October 31 and November 1 by the fact that the first is popularly called Halloween, and the second All Saints’ Day. Hallowmas and All Hallows’ Day are among the other names for the church feast of November 1, and from these names, of course, Halloween…
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Lazarus, Come from the Dead
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all. – T.S. Eliot, “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” In the last glimpse we catch of Lazarus, he is sitting at a dinner held in Christ’s honor, the object of the crowd’s curiosity and the target of a…