"I think of the stable where Jesus was born and the smell of oxen, donkeys, sheep and wet wool. The reality of the stable is brought home to me: it was a bare, smelly, dirty and unlikely place for the Son of God to born, a poor place. Yet, isn't that just like God? To do the unexpected? The surprising? The mystery of Christmas is that it happened at all."
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Timothy Anthony McDonnell
Timothy Anthony McDonnell (December 23, 1937 – March 5, 2026) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxillary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York and as the bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts.
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