'The Spirit of Christmas is here in our new home'

Situated in a rather unclean environment in Maradana, the home for the Elders run by the St. Mary's Church, the Little Sisters of Poor is perhaps, an ideal Elders Community where Christmas is celebrated in its true spirit.

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Incidents, inspirations and insights

Popular Christmas Carols:

The Methodists claim that Methodism was born in song. Charles Wesley the greatest of all Christian Hymn writers has written over six thousand hymns on almost every subject within the compass of Christianity.

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Of literary bondage

Part II

In the 20th century, among the Indian individuals who exerted an influence on Sri Lankan culture, the greatest was Rabindranath Tagore. He is the only Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, a hallmark of world recognition, and the creator of the song in Bengali which was adopted as the national anthem, although India had chosen Hindi as the State language and Bengali is a language spoken by only 67 million in India.

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