Full Service - Christmas Eve Communion
Taken from Times and Seasons
Description
Christmas Eve Communion – Proper 1
Service Contents:
Hymn: Long ago, prophets knew or Where is Jesus, where is Mary,
Prayer: God, we meet in anticipation
The Lord’s Prayer
Reading: Isaiah 9:2-7
Hymn: Come, Thou long-expected Jesus or O what did it mean to the ones who first heard it?
Reading: Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)
Sermon idea: Poem: A birth
Poem: The Prince of Peace
Hymn: Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to us or The shepherd mind had open eyes
Communion: Here in the night light we wait for communion…
Hymn: Born in the night, Mary’s child or In every face that stares out from the manger
Christmas blessing: Let us go out taking the love of God in our hands…
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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