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He that loveth riches William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-28-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
Third day of Christmas William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-27-25
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: On the Third day of Christmas my true love sent to me three French hens
12 Days of Christmas
Ever be really yours William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-26-25
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12 Gdbv ri Fkulvwpdv
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis
Merry Christmas Charlie Brown 2025
Here’s what Christmas is all about:
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
A child is born William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-25-25
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Q. G. Zskwg
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6
Defiance And Concern At Swarthmore Chanukah Celebration –On Sunday, Dec. 21, Swarthmore Chabad had its 2nd Annual Chanukah celebration.
Because of the mass killing in Australia, there was some nervousness but the event went off without any problems, except for the cold.
There may have been some people who did not attend because of the previous violence, though possibly just as many may have attended in defiance of the Australian violence.
See also 6pm – Swat Central – Swarthmore College Calendar
At the same time, we could also choose to be in defiance of the Gaza violence, especially as members of a persecuted religion. This is one place to go: Jewish Voices For Peace.
Real spirit of Christmas William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-24-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.”
Calvin Coolidge
Christmas Pagan? Nope — Conventional wisdom has become that the holiday celebrating the birth of Christ is something the early Christians co-opted from a pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice.
A Muhlenberg College history professor says that is completely backwards.
William J. Tighe, an associate professor at the college in Allentown, says that Christmas really was thought to be the date of the Lord Jesus’ birth.
The thinking then was that great Jewish prophets died on the date of their birth or conception.
The date of Jesus’ death can be calculated from Gospel accounts.
The faction using the Latin calendar wound up placing the Crucifixion at March 25, according to Tighe. This was the faction that became dominant in the West.
The Latin church determined that was also date that the Archangel Gabriel announced that Mary was with child. Nine months later, on Dec. 25, would be the Lord’s birth.
March 25 is still celebrated as the Feast of the Annunciation.
Tighe notes that Rome didn’t celebrate Dec. 25 as a pagan holiday until the anti-Christian Emperor Aurelian declared it to be the festival of the “Birth of the Unconquered Sun” in 274. By then, Christianity was already making its impact well felt on the Empire.
Tighe is also a faculty advisor to the Catholic Campus Ministry and a member of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church in Bethlehem.
Christmas Pagan? Nope
Hat tip Bob Guzzardi