DID YOU KNOW?: The first nativity scene didn't appear until 1223. More than a millennium after Jesus' birth, St. Francis of Assisi received permission from Pope Honorious III to stage the first nativity in an Italian cave. Present were an ox and an ass. By the Late Middle Ages, nativity scenes could be seen throughout Europe.

Today's Hadleigh sunset: 15:43

Dry and chilly start, with patchy fog and some early bright spells in the east. Then outbreaks of mainly light rain spread east through the morning. Becoming breezy but milder. Maximum Temperature 11, low of 7c.

God for whom we watch and wait, you sent John the Baptist to prepare the way of your Son: give us courage to speak the truth, to hunger for justice, and to suffer for the cause of right, with Jesus Christ our Lord.

Liesbeth Oosterhof

How did Mary and Joseph know Jesus' weight when he was born?

Sunday reflection

A reading from the letters of John to the Thessalonians.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do this.

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