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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1972
Page
1
The notice lists religious services and activities across churches in Texas. It includes Masses, Sunday school, Christmas programs, and worship times at St. Ann's, First Pentecostal in Harper, First Baptist in David, along with a mobile home mover ad and weekly church activities.
The article traces St Francis of Assisi creating the first praesepe or crib to bring Christmas closer to parishioners in the early 13th century. It notes his carol The Song of the Creatures and how the creche spread worldwide, especially in Latin America and Europe, framing a holy Christmastide.
Dramatizing the birth of Christ inspires awe as nativity scenes in churches and homes re-create the manger story. The Women of St James Lutheran Church held a Christmas program with readings, carols, and refreshments, inviting Harper community members to attend. A Danish folk tale notes the Jul Bock goat as a Santa stand in during holiday lore.
We express gratitude for acts of kindness and sympathy after the death of our mother sister grandmother and great grandmother. Special thanks to physicians pastors funeral home pallbearers organists soloist nursing home staff and friends for Masses flowers cards and blessings.
The relatives of Mrs. W H Stevens express heartfelt thanks for sympathy shown after her death. Gratitude goes to Drs Perry Stein and Poehlmann, hospital staff and Auxiliary at Hill Country Memorial Hospital, Fathers Gitter and Schneider, Schaetter Funeral Home, and friends for prayers cards flowers memorials and food.
Over the past two years more than 400 acres of native grassland were seeded after brush control in the Upper Llanos Soil and Water Conservation District. In spring 1973 about 2000 acres are planned under conservation contracts with cost share funds totaling over 80,000 dollars through the Soil Conservation Service.
The Nativity scene and a range of works from Handel and Bach to Berlioz and Britten mark Christmas seasons. Modern additions include Menotti and the Christmas Cantata, all featured repeatedly in year after year holiday programs.
Bees hum holiday carols as melodeaths are reported on Christmas Eve per levend.
James Pierpont of Massachusetts wrote the popular secular carol Jingle Bells in the 1850s, becoming one of America's most sung holiday songs.
Eastern sages followed a guiding star to Bethlehem to honor the newborn king. They presented gold frankincense and myrrh, worshipped the child, and, warned in a dream, returned home by another route.
The gospel account describes Caesar Augustus ordering a Roman census. Joseph travels from Nazareth to Bethlehem with Mary, who is expectant. In Bethlehem Mary gives birth to a son and lays him in a manger due to no room in the inn.
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