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                    [Title] => Remembering the Reason for the Season
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Around the same time this year, I wrote about our family Advent traditions.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-28 11:22:39 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1772953 [AuthorName] => Tina Santiago-Rodriguez [SectionName] => Unblogged [SectionUrl] => unblogged [URL] => http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4222/150x90jessetree.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 755332 [Title] => The truth about Santa Claus [Summary] =>

As a child, I used to love singing the song “I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus.” I don’t recall anymore if I believed that Santa was the one who would give us gifts on Christmas Day. I think that if I did though, it didn’t take me long to figure out that my parents were the real “Santas” in the family.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-06 12:25:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1772953 [AuthorName] => Tina Santiago-Rodriguez [SectionName] => Unblogged [SectionUrl] => unblogged [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 612132 [Title] => Fitflop's new kids' range advocates freedom of feet! [Summary] =>

It’s 100 days to Christmas starting today kids and you know what this means. You better be good or else you won’t be included in someone’s Christmas list. Yep, Santa Claus is coming to town!

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1773906 [AuthorName] => Tita Quennie [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 532192 [Title] => D' Original Santa Claus [Summary] =>

As the door of my four-year-old nephew’s kindergarten class swings open, a small and shaggy-looking creature runs inside, eliciting startled shrieks from the children.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134560 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1777366 [AuthorName] => Tony Montemayor [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 491222 [Title] => WWI veteran being laid to rest in UK [Summary] => BRIGHTON (AP) -- Dignitaries, family members and hundreds well-wishers are gathering for the funeral of Henry Allingham, one of the last British survivors of World War I. [DatePublished] => 2009-07-30 18:02:01 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 412323 [Title] => A prayer for children [Summary] => I believe one sector that government should focus on are the disadvantaged children. Lately I was sad to read the news ... [DatePublished] => 2008-11-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 311948 [Title] => How ‘Christmas’ evolved from pagan Saturnalia [Summary] => A book by J. M. Golby and A. W. Purdue entitled The Making of the Modern Christmas explains how our Christmas celebration evolved from the pagan Saturnalia. It says:
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 296426 [Title] => Indulgence granted on St. Nicholas feast [Summary] => Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal granted plenary indulgence to all the faithful yesterday in a circular on the occasion of the feast of Saint Nicholas of Tolentine the other day. In his circular, Vidal said that all the faithful could obtain plenary indulgence if they fulfill diligently the habitual conditions such as sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion, and praying for the intention of the supreme pontiff.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 295767 [Title] => Candaba awaits ‘miraculous’ birds on feast of San Nicolas [Summary] => CANDABA, Pampanga — Folk in this town, led by Mayor Jerry Pelayo, are anticipating not only the arrival soon of various species of migratory birds, but also the occurrence of what they have always believed, since the days of their forefathers, to be a "miraculous" phenomenon every Sept. 10.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 232965 [Title] => Here comes Santa Claus [Summary] => What jingles his bells? How does he mix and mingle in his jingling feet? How does he rock his night away? If Santa Claus were to kiss ass, what would he say?

How old are you really?

[DatePublished] => 2003-12-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134562 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1123191 [AuthorName] => Ana G. Kalaw [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) ) )
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