Christmas Blessings

It's Christmas Eve!

  I found this 'link' and enjoyed watching the Anglican choir.

If this link does not work, just cut and paste.  Hopefully that will work.

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 The choir is singing 'In the deep mid-winter.' The Christmas Eve service is a beautiful setting for this song.

Christ gave His life for us.  We
are invited to give our heart to Him.

 This shot of our little church was taken before
 the leaves began to fall.  We have yet to see snow.

The church is not decorated until just before the Christmas Eve service.
It still is a place of beauty.

An intimate setting for worship

Tonight we will see candles and greens and Poinsettias.  The Creche will be at the front of the church for all to gaze upon.  One of the children will bring the baby, Jesus, forward at that special moment when we light our candles.
                               The 'light' of Christ enters the world.
                                                          Oh JOY!

In the Anglican church we celebrate Christmas from December 25 to January 6, Epiphany.  That's why some of us keep our decorations up long after others have taken them down.  This is also our time to sing those glorious carols that celebrate Christ's birth.  Most of our merry making takes place through the twelfth night, when we watch the arrival of the Wise Men.  This year we will have a grand celebration on Sunday, Dec. 8 when the children lead us to the Christ child.

May the Blessings of Christmas be abundant and spill over into the New Year.