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Chocolate Nativity

Published on 23 December, 2011 in Faith by Alastair. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Last year, David Keen circulated a version of the Chocolate Nativity to folks looking for an idea for an all-age  Christmas.

Who's the real Hero of the Nativity story?

As my local shops had a few different chocolates to the ones in the story I received, I adapted it a little.

If it’s any use to anyone, please do borrow it. You may need to adapt it to local varieties of chocolate!

Chocolate Nativity script

Chocolate Nativity script

:: UPDATE ::
Ooops.
It transpires that I may have done an Emo Philips, as it may be that Stewart Henderson & J.John published a version of this a few years ago:

SweetChristmas

Stewart Henderson & J.John's Sweet Christmas

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Leaps of Christ

Published on 25 December, 2009 in Faith, Poetry and Spirituality by Alastair. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .
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The Leaps of Christ - credit thriol

The ‘Leaps of Christ’ was part of the theme taken by Bishop John Hind at the Chichester Diocesan Synod recently. I had heard of this Old English poem, but on being re-introduced to it, it led me to explore some of the wonderful Advent and Christmas within it.

The section on the Leaps of Christ comes within the part known as Christ II, or sometimes Christ B, within the Exeter Book. The first book deals primarily with Advent, book two with the Ascension, and the third Continue reading ‘Leaps of Christ’

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