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		<title>Orthodox Christmas Byzantine Hymn (in Greek)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[9th Ode of the Christmas Canon]]></description>
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		<title>Who stole Christmas? &#8211; A consumerist Nativity story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/christmassale.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-388 alignleft" title="christmassale" src="http://dialogues.stjohndfw.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/christmassale.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a>From time to time even a benign shopping session at Walmart can give you insight on the status of our society today. The other night, as part of pre-Christmas preparation, I was looking for a copy of the recent Hollywood movie "The Nativity story". After scouting for a while with no avail in the helter-skelter of the multi-media proposals, I...]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding post-Christmas Depression &#8211; Lisa C. DeLuca</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Avoid Christmas Depression
The Eastern Orthodox Nativity Fast May Prevent Post-Holiday Blues

The ancient Orthodox Christian religion celebrates the Christmas holiday in a way that helps people cope with depression and experience the true joy of Christmas. People often feel deprived and lonely, in stark contrast to all of the pre-Christmas cheer. Others feel let down and weighed down by food and debt after the Christmas holiday. ]]></description>
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		<title>The true Christmas spirit or Putting back Christ into Xmas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a first comer in an Orthodox Church the thing that strikes the most is the richness of traditions that abound in the life of the faithful. It seems that we have a tradition for everything: the way we light the candles, the way we venerate the icons, the way we cross ourselves and so on. All conforms to some unwritten rules that are puzzling and difficult to follow ]]></description>
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		<title>The Nativity Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you liked that post, then try these...The Perfect Gift for ChristmasWho's Bible is it?Why did the People of Israel Crucified Christ?]]></description>
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