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• The Blessed Dead Waiting for Us: A Sermon Preached in St. James' Church, Marietta, Georgia, on the Festival of All Saints, November 1st, 1863, by Samuel Benedict (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Christmas Sermon, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Dilemma of Santa Claus (Ann Arbor: James Foster House of Art, ca. 1917), by Lloyd C. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Timeless Patterns in Time, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)

• The Meaning of Victory and Peace: A Sermon Preached at the Thanksgiving Service of the First Church of Christ and the Second Church of Christ in Hartford, Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1918 (ca. 1918), by Rockwell Harmon Potter (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Eternal Epistle: Sermons on the Epistles for the Church Year (Columbus, OH: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1908), by Simon Peter Long, contrib. by Florence May Welty
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Pulpit Orator: Containing Seven Elaborate Skeleton Sermons, or, Homiletic, Dogmatical, Liturgical, Symbolical, and Moral Sketches for Every Sunday of the Year; Also Elaborate Sermon Skeletons for the Chief Festivals and Other Occasions (12th revised edition, 6 volumes; Ratisbon et al.: F. Pustet and Co., 1911), by John Evangelist Zollner, trans. by Augustine Wirth, contrib. by Andrew Arnold Lambing
  • Volume I (First Sunday of Advent to Fifth Sunday after Epiphany): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Sixth Sunday after Epiphany to Eastern Sunday): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Low Sunday to Fourth Sunday after Pentecost): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Fifth to Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Fifteenth to Last Sunday after Pentecost): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Chief festivals and other occasions): multiple formats at archive.org

• Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons (The Fathers of the Church, A New Translation, v38; New York: Fathers of the Church, Inc., 1959), by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by Mary Sarah Muldowney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Aelfric's Lives of Saints: Being a Set of Sermons on Saints' Days Formerly Observed by the English Church (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner and Co., 1881), by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric, ed. by Walter W. Skeat (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Inner Way, by Johannes Tauler, trans. by Arthur N. Wollaston (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Inner Way, by Johannes Tauler, trans. by Arthur N. Wollaston (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Discipline of War: Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent, From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday (London: Skeffington and Son, 1915), by John Hasloch Potter
  • Gutenberg text
  • DjVu at archive.org
• The Seven Last Words From the Cross: A Course of Seven Lenten Sermons (New York: J. F. Wagner, c1913), by H. G. Hughes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Gloria Crucis: Addresses Delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907, by Joseph Hugh Beibitz (Gutenberg text)

• Gloria Crucis: Addresses Delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907, by Joseph Hugh Beibitz (Gutenberg text)

• Messages from the Cross, by Buford Battin (PDF at nnu.edu)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Festival of the Dead (reprinted as New Materials for the History of Man #1; Toronto: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1920), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work), by Egeria, trans. by M. L. McClure and Charles Lett Feltoe (HTML at CCEL)
• The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896), by Egeria, ed. by J. H. Bernard, contrib. by Charles William Wilson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• A Testimony for Truth Against All Hireling Priests and Deceivers, by Judith Boulbie (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Matsuri: Festival and Rite in Japanese Life (Tokyo: Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, c1988), trans. by Norman Havens (HTML in Japan)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• Beacons on the Talmud's Sea: Analyses of Passages From The Talmud And Issues In Halachah, Adapted From The Works of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at chabad.org)

• The Feasts of Camelot, with the Tales That Were Told There (London: Bell and Daldy, 1863), by Mrs. T. K. Hervey (multiple formats at Google)

• Greek Saints and Their Festivals (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1910), by Mary Agnes Hamilton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Annus Ecclesiasticus Graeco-Slavicus, Editus Anno Millenario Sanctorum Cyrilli et Methodii, Slavice Geatis Apostolorum (in Latin; Brussels: Typ. Henrici Goemaere, 1863), by I. Martynov
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• True Christmas Spirit (c1955), by Edward J. Sutfin (HTML at EWTN)
• The Twelve Days of Christmas (c1955), by Elsa Chaney (HTML at EWTN)
• Our Christmas Symbols (Raleigh, NC: Graphic Press, c1953), by Aylene E. Cooke and Cameron Cooke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Christmas: Sun, Saviour and Santa Claus (Atlanta: Oglethorpe University Press, 1941), by Thornwell Jacobs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Christmas Entertainments (originally published in 1740 as "Round About Our Coal Fire"; reprinted London: Field and Tuer, et al., ca. 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan (London: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Clement A. Miles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Feast of St. Friend: A Christmas Book (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Friendship and Happiness (Hodder and Stoughton edition; usually titled "The Feast of St. Friend"), by Arnold Bennett (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Lights of Beacon Hill: A Christmas Message (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922), by Abbie Farwell Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mystical Interpretation of Christmas, by Max Heindel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Myths and Legends of Christmastide (San Francisco: Stanley-Taylor Co., 1901), by Bertha F. Herrick (Gutenberg text)
• Yule-Tide in Many Lands, by Mary Poague Pringle and Clara A. Urann, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Little Book for Christmas (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Will Crawford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• St. Nicholas: His Legend and His Rôle in the Christmas Celebration and Other Popular Customs (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by George Harley McKnight (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• St. Paul and Protestantism, With Other Essays (popular edition; London: Smith, Elder, 1892), by Matthew Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Our Children's Year of Grace (fifth edition, 1955), by Therese Mueller (HTML at EWTN)
• Annus Ecclesiasticus Graeco-Slavicus, Editus Anno Millenario Sanctorum Cyrilli et Methodii, Slavice Geatis Apostolorum (in Latin; Brussels: Typ. Henrici Goemaere, 1863), by I. Martynov
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Greatest Drama Ever Staged (published with "The Triumph of Easter"; c1938), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Bible View of Slavery (1861 sermon by Raphall, with contemporary rebuttals by Einhorn and Heilprin), by Morris J. Raphall, contrib. by David Einhorn and Michael Heilprin (illustrated HTML at jewish-history.com)
• Bible View of Slavery: A Discourse, Delivered at the Jewish Synagogue "Bnai Jeshurum", New York, on the Day of the National Fast, Jan. 4, 1861 (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1861), by Morris J. Raphall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• God our Refuge and Strength in This War: A Discourse Before the Congregations of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, on the Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, Appointed by President Davis, Friday, Nov. 15, 1861 (Richmond: W. Hargrave White, 1861), by T. V. Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Le Feste di San Giovanni in Firenze: Breve Notizia (in Italian; Florence: A. Ciardi, 1887), by Aurelio Gotti
  • page images in Italy
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.