I am on my way to Christmas Eve Mass, my first since I was received into the Church, and wanted to say a quick Merry Christmas to you all. Regardless of whether or not you will be attending a Christmas Mass of your own, or celebrating some other way, I will be lifting up prayers of thanks for you at mine and asking for God’s blessing upon each one of you.
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Lord, in this holy season of prayer and song and laughter, we praise you for the great wonders you have sent us: for shining star and angel’s song, for infant’s cry in lowly manger. We praise you for the Word made flesh in a little Child. We behold his glory, and are bathed in its radiance.
Be with us as we sing the ironies of Christmas, the incomprehensible comprehended, the poetry made hard fact, the helpless Babe who cracks the world asunder. We kneel before you shepherds, innkeepers, wisemen. Help us to rise bigger than we are. Amen.
