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A long time ago, at Sacred Heart Novitiate in Novaliches, I was making my own annual retreat.

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Christmas is a beautiful time. The church bells begin to ring at four in the morning, nine days before the moment when Christ was born. Whole families flowing through the streets, pouring into the churches for the Aguinaldo Mass.

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The Lord is my lot. . . . . the Lord is my share. . . . .It was a Roman game. They put dice into a leather gourd, and when they shook it, one dice bounced out. That was you dice. . . . your lot. . . . .your share.
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This is fine. But the fact that paper was really produced in the fourth century says nothing about its content. It only means that someone wrote a story about Judas Iscariot three hundred years after the event. No one claims that Judas wrote that Gospel.

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Christmas is a beautiful time. The church bells begin to ring at four in the morning, nine days before the moment when Christ was born. Whole families flowing through the streets, pouring into the churches for the Aguinaldo Mass.

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The Lord is my lot. . . . . the Lord is my share. . . . .It was a Roman game. They put dice into a leather gourd, and when they shook it, one dice bounced out. That was you dice. . . . your lot. . . . .your share.
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This is fine. But the fact that paper was really produced in the fourth century says nothing about its content. It only means that someone wrote a story about Judas Iscariot three hundred years after the event. No one claims that Judas wrote that Gospel.

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