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 ...

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.

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 ...