Posted on 12/22/2004 9:16:26 PM PST by presidio9
And it came to pass, that in those days there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that the whole world should be enrolled. This enrolling was first made by Cyrinus, the governor of Syria.
And all went to be enrolled, every one into his own city.
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem: because he was of the house and family of David,
To be enrolled with Mary his espoused wife, who was with child.
And it came to pass, that when they were there, her days were accomplished, that she should be delivered.
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
-- Chapter Two, verses 1 through 7, The Gospel According to St. Luke, Douay-Rheims Version I was 7 years old and what I wanted for Christmas was a desk. I don't know why. I think I had it in my head that grown-up women who were glamorous had desks, and I would have gotten that impression through the movies--Rosalind Russell in the newsroom bossing Cary Grant around, Katharine Hepburn on the phone. This was the 1950s, and that's the kind of movie they always played on "Million Dollar Movie" on Channel 9 in New York. They had no money for programming on Channel 9 so they repeated the same movie over and over for a week at a time. To this day I can recite whole sections of dialogue from "They Drive by Night" but that's not important now.
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Kinda beats Maureen Dowd all to heck, doesn't it???
Merry CHRISTmas!
See tagline!
I erased the board in my wife's hospital room. It said Happy Holidays. I wrote MERRY CHRISTMAS instead.
That was fun.
You're kidding, aren't you? Never surrender, never give up!
Merry Christmas to you, and to all those who have a problem with anything religious.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!!!
Amen!
Rock on.
Sorry to hear your wife is in the hospital. If Jesus isn't invited into a hospital room, where would he be invited???
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