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Sat, Jan 01
|Saint Aelred Catholic Church
Mary, Holy Mother of God
Holy Day of Obligation: The 8th Day of Christmas, the Christmas Octave, the Feast of the Circumcision, etc. On this day Jesus was circumcised on the 8th day after his Nativity to put him under The Law, that he might fulfill it for us, receiving his name, "Jesus" or "Joshua," meaning "YHWH saves."

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