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...Gospel does not tell how many Wise Men there were; according to St. Chrysostom and St. Augustine there were twelve, but tradition soon narrowed them to three-presumably because of the three gifts they brought. As far back as the and century, the church assigned symbolical meaning to the gifts: gold for Christ's kingship, frankincense for his priesthood, and healing myrrh for his suffering and his role as physician to mankind. The Wise Men, or Magi, may have been members of an occult school in Media and Persia that specialized in astrology. No one knows how or when...
...Second Bethlehem. After the elements of the Nativity scene were established, the first recorded real crèche was made in 1223 by St. Francis of Assisi. Christmas had always been for him the "Feast of Feasts" when "God condescended to be fed by human love." In the church at the town of Greccio, three years before he died, St. Francis preached before a manger filled with hay, beside which stood an ox and an ass. Wrote an early biographer, Thomas of Celano: "Greccio was transformed almost into a second Bethlehem, and that wonderful night seemed like the fullest...
Flesh & Abstractions. Along with his other activities, Mankowitz' stage successes have brought him a handsome St. John's Wood house in London and an eight-acre, 16th century manor in Kent. His real rewards, says he, are to have achieved "independence, privacy and space." Despite such serene surroundings, he insists, "I have more in common with any other freelance, from a prostitute to a delicatessen owner, than the stiff, abstract tedious people from the literary world...
...intrepid indeed of St. Paul . . . to declare that hope should stand along with love," says Dr. Menninger, and lays it largely to Paul's Jewish background of hope in a Messiah. Then Martin Luther: "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope...
Christmas Midnight Mass (NBC, midnight-1:25 a.m.). From Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, the telecast will be narrated by the Very Rev. Timothy J. Flynn, director of the office of Radio and TV of the Archdiocese of New York...