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Merry Xmas

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Second Sunday after Christmas - B
John 1:(1-9) 10-18
David E. Leininger
Lectionary Tales for the Pulpit
Series VI, Cycle B
This is a glorious time of year. Charles Dickens wrote, "I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round ... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut up hearts freely ... And therefore ... though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it." Merry Christmas ... merry, merry Christmas!

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