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Baby Jesus is coming
Photos taken after the set-up of the life-size outdoor creche in Chicago's Daley Plaza Nov. 24. The God Squad, a team of volunteers from Chicago-area parishes, sets up the Nativity scene each year at the start of Advent.
Molly and Margaret Finnegan are allowed a closer look at the baby Jesus. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)
Debbie Titus, Director of the Handbell Choir at at St. Santa Maria del Popolo Catholic Church in Mundelein, Ill, leads participants in Christmas carols. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)
Rev. Gerald O'Reilly - Associate Pasto at St. Santa Maria del Popolo Catholic Church in Mundelein, Ill, holds up his stole showing what the baby Jesus looked like as a fetus. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)
A woman stops to pray at the life-size outdoor creche in Chicago's Daley Plaza Nov. 24. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)
Visitors stop to look at the life-size outdoor creche in Chicago's Daley Plaza Nov. 24. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)
Rev. Gerald O'Reilly - Associate Pasto at St. Santa Maria del Popolo Catholic Church in Mundelein, Ill, leads a prayer. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)
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