Inns near empty now in Jesus’ birthplace – washtimes

Bethlehem’s inns, which had no vacancies for the birth of Jesus about 2,000 years ago, are largely empty this Christmas season, according to a United Nations report that found tourism to the West Bank town has fallen 92 percent in the past four years.

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Only in the washpost on Christmas Day

What this country needs is a grass-roots movement to take the “X” out of “Xmas.”

Xmas With All of the Exes

“He said, ‘Honey, will you please pass the potatoes?’ — and two women reached for the potatoes,” recounted Blackstone-Ford, who recently co-wrote a book — with her husband’s ex-wife — about her extended family experiences, “Ex-Etiquette for Parents: Good Behavior After a Divorce or Separation.”

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Et Incarnatus Est

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The earth is glad, O Lord, and leaps with joy, for that the Word made flesh dwells in the womb of the holy Virgin. At His coming the whole earth is ransomed from captivity, after having been kept, by Adam’s sin, in a dark prison. Now let the sea be moved, and all things that are therein; let the mountains leap with joy, and all the trees of the forest; because God, having become man, has deigned to come through the womb of the blessed Virgin Mary, from heaven into this world. By this His coming, therefore, we beseech Thee, O almighty God, that thou loose the weakness of our flesh from the bonds of sin, and come in Thy overflowing mercy, to the assistance of this Thy family here present before Thee.

From the Mozarabic Missal quoted by Michael Davies in an article “Et Incarnatus Est”

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