Coventry

Dec 27, 2015 | Christmas, music, poem

Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child bye bye we say this day. Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child bye bye along your way. O brothers, all, see how death falls; let anger be displayed, and to this child wrapped in a shawl sing you lully lullay. Dear sisters, too,...

Christmas Creed

Dec 25, 2015 | Christmas

And now what has been is forever again; And now these days we have watched are as a dream fading at dawn; And now the best of our longings are idle fantasies as the Desire of all creation takes its throne; And now we catch our breath and bend our knee at This: the...

Theotokos

Dec 24, 2015 | Advent, Christmas

Bless you, Mary, mother of God, for your courage and effort to give life to God in impossible circumstances: in full knowledge of the glory, in complete certainty of the pain. Bless you, Mary, for bearing God into the world and bless us to follow your...

Christmas Blessing

Dec 25, 2014 | Christmas

And so goodness and loving kindness have appeared among us — not by our work or righteousness — but by holy mercy, and indeed, how else would goodness and loving kindness be manifest among us if not by miracle? But because they have appeared in abundance,...

Glory to God in the Highest

Dec 24, 2014 | Advent, Christmas

Into the stillness bright flashes, loud pops, bursts of sound, all so disorienting Who can stand at such a time when power erupts without warning, without even a Pity to help the fast-beating hearts caught off guard by the moment, by the forceful authority And when...

Emmanuel

Dec 23, 2014 | Advent, Christmas

God is with us not despite but in God is with us not except but because God is with us not after but through God is with us not near but within God is with us not until but along God is with us not from but for God is with...

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