The Second Sunday After Christmas

by CCW | 3 January 2021 01:00

The Book of Common Prayer[1] (Canadian, 1962) does not provide a collect for the Second Sunday after Christmas, but specifies that the service for the Octave Day of Christmas[2] “shall be used until the Epiphany.”

El Greco, Adoration of the Shepherds (Bucharest)[3]ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us thy only begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin: Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

The Lesson: Isaiah 9:2-7[4]
The Gospel: St. Luke 2:15-21[5]

Artwork: El Greco, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1596-1600. Oil on canvas, Muzeul National de Arta[6], Bucharest.

Endnotes:
  1. The Book of Common Prayer: http://prayerbook.ca/resources/bcponline/propers/#christmasoctave
  2. Octave Day of Christmas: https://christchurchwindsor.ca/2020/01/01/the-octave-day-of-christmas-and-the-circumcision-of-christ-11/
  3. [Image]: http://christchurchwindsor.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ElGreco_AdorationOfShepherds_Bucharest.jpg
  4. Isaiah 9:2-7: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%209:2-7&version=ESVUK
  5. St. Luke 2:15-21: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%202:15-21;&version=ESVUK;
  6. Muzeul National de Arta: https://www.mnar.arts.ro/en/

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