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Came He Not in Fire (VU 15)
Came He Not in Fire, |
We Light The Fourth Candle
God of Love (Prayer by Rev. Beryl, 2007 ) |
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A Candle is Burning (VU 6)
A candle is burning, |
A candle is burning, A candle of peace, A candle to signal That conflict must cease: For Jesus is coming To show us the way ; A message of peace Humbly laid in the hay. |
A candle is burning, A candle of joy, A candle to welcome Brave Mary's new boy. Our hearts fill with wonder, And eyes light and glow As joy brightens winter Like sunshine on snow. |
A candle is burning, A candle of love, A candle to point us To heaven above. A baby for Christmas, A wonderful birth, For Jesus is bringing God's love to our earth. |
Blue Christmas - By Reverend Beryl O God of all seasons and all senses, grant us the sense of your gentle presence and help us submit gracefully and rejoice quietly in the turn of the seasons.
In this season of short days and long nights, |
teach us the lessons of endings, Children growing, friends leaving, loves ones dying, grieving over, grudges over, blaming over, excuses over. O God, grant us a sense of your timing In this season of short days and long nights, of grey and white and cold, |
teach us the lessons of beginnings. That such waiting and endings may be the starting place, a planting of seeds which bring to birth that which is ready to be born, something right and just and different, a new song, a deeper relationship, a fuller love - in the fullness of your time. O God, grant us a sense of your timing. |
Scripture this week is read by... John O. |
Silent was the night in Bethlehem, Peacefully the stars shone above, Softly the breeze swayed the olive trees, Silent was the night When God sent down his love... (By Lani Smith) |
Offering Prayer
We ask that You bless these offerings, |
Offertory |
What can I give him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb; If I were a wise man, I would do my part; Yet what I can I give him? Give my heart. |
Angels We Have Heard on High (VU 38)
Angels we have heard on high
R: Gloria in excelsius deo |
Shepherds why this jubilee? Why your joyful strains prolong? And the gladsome tidings be Which inspire your heav'nly song? R.
Come to Bethlehem and see |
See Him in a manger laid
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Commissioning
Go out now brothers and sisters in Christ! |