With joy we pray, Amen. God, our Creator, we offer this humble prayer on Christmas Day. We come to worship with a song of thanks in our hearts—a song of redemption, a song of hope and renewal.

Book of Common Prayer Almighty God ... when the shepherds are back with the flocks, then the work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, to heal those broken in spirit, to feed the hungry ...

who see Christmas just as a lot of very hard work, and people for whom Christmas will be desperately sad because someone close to them has died during the year. For some of those people ...

And Christmas recalls the bright star in the night that guided people to a barn in Bethlehem where an infant was born and called a king. Sponsor Message And so we've uttered quite a few prayers ...