Locals attend mass at their local parishes and spend the day relaxing with family and friends.
Sabina, one of the largest and most active black parishes in the country, saw it differently.
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The diocese covers Herefordshire, south Shropshire, parts of Worcestershire and 12 parishes in Powys and Monmouthshire.
As early as the 1800s, twin births in Sweden were recorded by priests in town parishes.
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Jeff Landry grew up here and now represents six of the eight threatened parishes.
Some parishes were more careful than others in ensuring their funds were handled properly.
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Abusive priests from more affluent parishes are moved to poorer churches in immigrant, and often Hispanic, communities.
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The parishes group is made up of Arborfield and Newland, Barkham, Finchampstead, Shinfield, Swallowfield and Wokingham Without.
Worshippers in the Church's 16, 000 parishes are being encouraged to tweet on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
The largest group, as measured by the number of parishes, consists of Orthodox Christians aligned with Moscow.
The Diocese of Sheffield, which receives two parishes from the proposed new diocese. has already voted in favour.
The church could allow more flexibility to local bishops and parishes, who can respond creatively to local conditions.
The council said it also had a network of community groups gritting roads in their villages and parishes.
If the secondary school is oversubscribed, priority will be given to baptised Catholic children living in certain local parishes.
In the latter case, the loss of famously open-handed parishes would be painful.
Blackburn, which also receives some parishes under the plan, will vote in April.
Where outside funding can be found, the work is now done by parishes.
The vast majority of parishes that commingled their funds with those dioceses now in bankruptcy lost all their investments.
Some of the parishes would work hard to recover child support payments, while others were more lax, says Williams.
In the American archdiocese of Milwaukee, for example, half the parishes are expected to be without priests by 2016.
Having much, often virtually all, of that be income tax free probably affects the viability of some small parishes.
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Morehouse, Richland, Union and West Carroll parishes were declared primary natural disaster areas.
The company also said it wanted to drop wind and hail coverage for 30, 000 homeowner policyholders in 18 Louisiana parishes.
He said there had been a rise in the number of events being held in the parishes and court responsibilities.
Officials were working with local councils to "fine tune" the waiver and identify the parishes that were affected the most.
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There had been disagreements on provisions for parishes opposed to women bishops to request supervision by a stand-in male bishop.
Around the U.S., parishes are in flux, and some congregations have shrunk so much they can't keep up their churches.
But States members voted against translating all laws relating to the parishes into English and re-enacting them in the States.
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