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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Tuesday, December 24, 2002 Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast 1968
Recordings may be heard here and here. Inspiring, and very moving.
Salus Mundi
I saw a stable, low and very bare,
A little child in a manger.
The oxen knew him, had Him in their care,
To men He was a stranger.
The safety of the world was lying there,
And the world’s danger.
Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)
From a gallery of Christmas verse compiled by EL Core.