Love’s Austere & Lonely Offices
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Christmas Eve B2023Luke 2:1-20 Poet Robert Hayden writes in his poem “Those Winter Sundays”: Sundays too my father got up earlyand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor in the weekday weather madebanked …