Last night at my 'family and family friends' Christmas Eve party, I opened with the Christmas Day Midnight collect and prayer from the Australian Prayer Book and got my four Tay cousins (visiting from Brisbane) to read the four lectionary readings, interspersed with carol singing. Earlier in the day, I had spent some time helping them to pronounce and understand what they were reading - 10 year old Aidan was particularly impressive as he exhorted us to 'renounce ungodliness' and be 'zealous for good works'.
These lectionary readings are well-chosen indeed, and I can imagine a wonderful carols service with selected carols complementing each reading. As it was, we had some incongruous and amusing juxtapositions, like Psalm 96 ("Ascribe to the LORD") followed by "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer". Well, reindeer praise the LORD too, no doubt.
In a less reverential mood, I also thought of three Christian slogans to redeem the vitiated image of Christmas that many people have:
1) Jesus' birth rocked the earth.
2) The baby who rules out maybe.
3) God with us. Worth the fuss.
How are you celebrating Christmas? Can you think of other slogans? =p
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