Article: Remembering reason for season ; At Christmas Eve services, commercial distractions fade and meaning can be found.

NOEL K GALLAGHER By NOEL K. GALLAGHER Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
12-25-2008
Remembering reason for season ; At Christmas Eve services, commercial distractions fade and meaning can be found.
Byline: NOEL K GALLAGHER By NOEL K. GALLAGHER Staff Writer
Edition: HOLIDAY
Section: Front
Type: Cover Story

A candlelit cathedral, draped in green boughs. Four-foot-tall wise men bearing gifts for a young Mary clutching a bundled white blanket. Young girls draped in white robes with delicate fabric wings and thick tinsel halos.

On Christmas Eve, all the materialistic trappings of Christmas fall away for parishioners who gather to hear the story of the birth of Jesus Christ. From children's ...

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