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I was particularly sweaty and distracted in church yesterday. So when the priest remarked that next Sunday marks the eighth Sunday before Christmas, I\u2019m afraid I took the news something like this: Here\u2019s to starting off the week in a less preoccupied fashion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2070,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[202,2663,579,711,795,999,1262,1505],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annunciation","tag-cartoons","tag-confessions","tag-distraction","tag-eighth-sunday-before-christmas","tag-gabriel","tag-iphone","tag-mary"],"yoast_head":"\n
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