Christmas Day - the Crib

The missing opening words of this sermon: "“And the Word became flesh and lived among us” – all that we celebrate today. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Congratulations: you have made it. Made it through all those stables that have been pushed through your letter boxes over the past weeks. Scenes that show Mary, Joseph and the child with Ox and Ass holding them together like bookends; shepherds with their sheep who had done a fast run from the fields; an angel hanging from the thatch of the roof..."

Readings

Isaiah 52.7-10

Psalm 98

Hebrews 1.1-4[5-12]

John 1.1-14

Midnight Mass - 'What can I give him?'

Isaiah 9.2-7

Psalm 96

Titus 2.11-14

Luke 2.1-14[15-20]

Mary and Joseph - Listening, obedience

Isaiah 7.10-16

Psalm 80.1-8,18-20*

Romans 1.1-7

Matthew 1.18-25