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   BENEDICT XVI ATTENDS FIRST SERMON OF ADVENT   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 3 DEC 2010 (VIS) - At 9 a.m. today in the "Redemptoris Mater"   
   chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Pope and the pontifical family   
   attended the first sermon of Advent.   
      
   The theme of this year's meditations which were delivered, in keeping with   
   tradition, by Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa O.F.M. Cap., preacher of the Pontifical   
   Household, is taken from the Gospel of St. John (16, 33): "'Take courage; I   
   have conquered the world!'. Towards a re-evangelisation of the secularised   
   world".   
      
   The remaining Advent sermons will be given on 10 and 17 December.   
   .../VIS 20101203 (100)   
      
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