Sermon: Christmas Eve

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Mawell on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2024.

      Sermon - Christmas Eve 2024 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

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You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 9:2-7; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20.

(The artwork above is “In the House of the Carpenter,” by Edwin Blashfield, and is displayed at the geographic east end of the Ascension nave’s south aisle.)

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