Christmas at Christ Church, 2010

by CCW | 19 December 2010 09:00

Friday, December 24th, Christmas Eve
7:00pm Children’s Crêche Service
9:30pm Christmas Eve Communion Service

Saturday, December 25th, Christmas Day
10:00am Christmas Morning Communion Service

Sunday, December 26th, St. Stephen/Sunday After Christmas
10:30am Holy Communion

Monday, December 27th, St. John the Evangelist
10:00am Holy Communion

Tuesday, December 28th, Holy Innocents
10:00am Holy Communion

Thursday, December 30th
10:30am ‘Prayers & Praises’ at Dykeland Lodge

Saturday, January 1st, 2011, Circumcision of Christ/New Years’ Day
10:00am Holy Communion, followed by Levée in the Hall

Sunday, January 2nd, Second Sunday after Christmas
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Christmas Lessons & Carols

Thursday, January 6th, Epiphany
7:00pm Holy Communion (in the Hall)

O God, who makest glad with the yearly remembrance of the birth of thy only Son Jesus Christ: Grant that as we joyfully receive him as our Redeemer, we may with sure confidence behold him when he shall come again to be our Judge; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen.

When Mary the Mother kissed the Child

When Mary the Mother kissed the Child
And night on the wintry hills grew mild,
And the strange star swung from the courts of air
To serve at a manger with kings in prayer,
Then did the day of the simple kin
And the unregarded folk begin.

When Mary the Mother forgot the pain,
In the stable of rock began love’s reign.
When that new light on their grave eyes broke
The oxen were glad and forgot their yoke;
And the huddled sheep in the far hill fold
Stirred in their sleep and felt no cold.

When Mary the Mother gave of her breast
To the poor inn’s latest and lowliest guest,–
The God born out of the woman’s side,–
The Babe of Heaven by Earth denied,–
Then did the hurt ones cease to moan,
And the long-supplanted came to their own.

When Mary the Mother felt faint hands
Beat at her bosom with life’s demands,
And nought to her were the kneeling kings,
The serving star and the half-seen wings,
Then there was the little of earth made great,
And the man came back to the God’s estate.

From The Book of the Rose,
Charles G.D. Roberts, 1903

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