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In 386, John \u201cthe Golden Tongue\u201d Chrysostom preached the very first Christmas sermon. \u00a0It\u2019s beautiful. \u00a0And in spite of the fact that my forbears, the Puritans, refused to celebrate Christmas and punished anyone who did, I read Chrysostom\u2019s sermon every year and revel in the beauty of it. I encourage you to do the same. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[125,343],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","tag-christmas","tag-john-chrysostom"],"yoast_head":"\n
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