Child of Bethlehem, when your fingers wrap themselves around one of ours, and your eyes focus on our face, you look for love in us: love for friends, for God and strangers, love for the Earth, love for enemies, love that says, ‘yes’ to life.  (Ruth Burgess, Iona)

Christmas Eve Bulletin

Prayer:

There is No Silent Night:  ....Are we willing to change the world, and, in changing,
meet the Child?

Your Sacred Signature:  God of love and life

The hymns and music today… 

O Come, all Ye Faithful, (vss 1-4) (w/m John Francis Wade, trans Frederick Oakeley) - Public Domain

O Little Town of Bethlehem,  (w Phillips Brooks, m Lewis Henry Redner) - Public Domain

Away in a Manger, (w unknown, m William James Kirkpatic, arr. Desmond Hassell) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074. 

Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, (w Charles Wesley, m Felix Mendelssohn) - Public Domain

Silent Night, (w Joseph Mohr, m Franz Xavier Gruber, Engl. trans John Freeman Young) - Public Domain

We Light This Candle (CMayberry, Kai) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074 and CCLI Licenses #20425240 and #20425257. 

As We Offer Gifts (m Conrad Kocher)

Mary's Boy child, (J. Hairston)

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, (Sears, Willis, arr. Lewis)

O Holy Night, (A. Adam)

Holy is the Night, (J. Strathdee) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074. 

Shepherd's Pipe Carol (J. Rutter)

Ave maria (Franz Schubert) - Public Domain

Go Tell It on the Mountaine (arr. Kirby Shaw)

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