Christmas and Sadness
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Christmas and Sadness

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Christmas and Sadness More and more congregations are trying to be sensitive to those who are grieving during the holidays. As NPR religion correspondent Jason DeRose reports, more churches are making room for those emotions at Christmas. JASON DEROSE, BYLINE: St. Augustine By-The-Sea Episcopal Church is holding its Blue Christmas service. DEROSE: It's not just at this service that St. Augustine associate director Katie Cadigan hears such yearning. DEROSE: That God is present in the difficult times is a theme in many Christmas hymns, says Mark Hilt, who leads music at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica.

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Churches are making room for grief and loss at Christmas
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Churches are making room for grief and loss at Christmas

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Churches are making room for grief and loss at Christmas toggle caption Jason DeRose/NPR St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church held its Blue Christmas service last week. Sponsor Message "Those times where the heartbreak has come," says Kaufman Giordano, "the struggle with things like staying sober, a heartbreak over a child who's making different choices. Sponsor Message As the pipe organ …

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