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A Christmas Evening. A night to remember! – By Aubrey Joachim Last Sunday evening a full house of some 225 people were enthralled when they were taken back 2,000 years to re-live the story of the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ. The Sri Lankan New South Wales Catholic Association’s annual Christmas event was held at the Polish Church and hall in Marayong. The evening commenced with Holy Mass after which the statue of the Baby Jesus was processed from the church to the hall to commence the Nativity enactment on what is – this year, the 800th anniversary of the Nativity scene. St. Francis of Assisi had the first nativity scene in a cave near Greccio in Italy. The Nativity scene was created by St. Francis to re-create the landscape of Bethlehem – where Jesus was born some 1,200 years prior. Ever since, the Nativity has become a part ...