"The Glory of God: He Always Forgives" (2 Christmas '09)

ALMIGHTY God, who hast poured upon us the new light of thine incarnate Word; Grant that the same light enkindled in our hearts may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For the Epistle. Isaiah lxi. 1.
THE Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

The Gospel. St. Matthew ii. 19.
WHEN Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: and he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.

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Lead, Kindly Light, sung by Marian Anderson at a visit to Ghandis tomb, 1958
View at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8kEHKoEtPg&NR=1

Lead, Kindly Light, by John Henry Newman

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom
Lead thou me on;
The night is dark, and I am far from home;
Lead thou me on:
Keep thy my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.

O was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou
Shouldst lead me on;
I loved to choose and see my path but now
Lead thou me on.
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will; remember not past years.

So long thy power hath blest me, sure it still
Will lead me on
Oer moor and fen, oer crag and torrent, till
The night is gone;
And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.

Weekly meditations on the Sunday propers of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, by the Rt Rev. David McMannes, Bishop and Rector of Saint Luke's Church, Sedona, AZ. Saint Luke's uses the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, is an Anglo-Catholic parish, part of the Continuing Church movement in the United States, and a member of the Anglican Diocese of Arizona.

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