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For Children Everywhere at Christmas
2006-12-25
Mother Ginger
Clara's dream in the Nutcracker is full of a child's Christmas
fantasy - Sugar Plum Fairies, a Mouse King, a Nutcraker Prince.
A ginger bread house comes to life.
In his 1816 book The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,
E.T.A. Hoffman provided the stuff of dreams and inspiration of
the Nutcracker Ballet that is performed around the world.
Urbi et Orbi
The child of Bethlehem directs our gaze towards all children, particularly those who suffer and are abused in the world, the born and the unborn.
-Pope Benedict XVI Christmas sermon 2006
May peace come to children of all the world.