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Merry Christmas, everyone! (Dr McCullough and John Leake and fellow subscribers especially!) Best wishes for a wonderful holiday season and for 2025… to everyone.

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Thank you. Love the wrens! Merry Christmas!🎄🕎

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German, Austrian, and many European people believe that the Christ Child sends a messenger on Christmas Eve. The messenger appears as an angel in a white robe, bearing gifts and a tree. The angel is called "Christkind," which means "Christ Child" in German. Merry Christmas everyone!🎄

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Hi Josie, I tried to reply to your message with the scriptural reference in Jeremiah. I couldn't find it? Anyway, thank you for your reply.

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Merry Christmas to two warriors ! Maybe next year you could have cards made of your beautiful Christmas tree that we could purchase - let’s support the cause of medical and political freedom ! 🕊️🕊️

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🎄Merry Christmas! “In Him was life and that life was the Light of mankind.” John 1:4 🎄

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Merry Christmas indeed! Glad to see the Germanic tradition still carry on from the early Christmas days: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-a-party-uncovered-the-forgotten

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...and from earlier, pre-Christian times. Not only among the Germanic peoples, but also among the Slavic peoples.

With them all, the worship of trees was a very old, deep-seated one, rooted in pagan practices.

In the Orthodox church the only wood imbued with any consequence is the wood of Jesus Christ's redeeming Cross.

Merry Christmas!

Christ is born!

Glorify him!

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Merry Christmas to all from Alberta, Canada !!

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Merry Christmas Blessings

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Merry Christmas! The two doves is a miraculous photo! Your father was blessed💕

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Merry Christmas John. I always look forward to the history and literature references in your posts. You are unique and the best in this regard.

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Thank you for this Christmas Tree story and Merry Christmas to you! 🌲 🌲 🌲

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Merry Christmas to all from BC, Canada 🇨🇦

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Merry Christmas, John!!!

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Merry Christmas.

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Merry Christmas! Thank you for all the very interesting, informative and hopeful messages in the past. Here's to FAITH for a wonderful 2025 - safe, healthy, and positive.

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i hope you and yours and Dr McCullough and his family all have a very Merry Christmas.

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