Birth (PDF Download)

Digital download: Readings, prayers and songs for Christmas, taken from the book Hay and Stardust, by Ruth Burgess.

Contents:
In the fullness of time (prayer), by Ian M Fraser
A rumour of Christmas (reading), by Joy Mead
A work in progress (reading), by Jim Hughes
God made life (reading), by Frances Hawkey
Meditation in front of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (reading), by Ian Cowie
A new me (prayer), by Sarah Pascoe
It’s Christmas (reading), by Peter Millar
What glory this? (song: words only), by David Fox
Christmas coming (reading), by Pat Bennett
The Rotarian crib (reading), by Jan Sutch Pickard
Christmas is a time for my belly (reading), by a group of seven-year-olds
Prologue (reading), by Pat Bennett
Give me tears for Christmas (prayer), by Andrew Foster
In the beginning (sung responses: words and melody line), by Carol Dixon
The Word (reading), by Margaret Harvey
Jesus is born (song: words only, to be sung to the tune ‘The infant King’), by Pat Bennett
Occasional sightings of the Gospel (reading), by Thom M Shuman
Christmas blessing (prayer), by Ian Cowie
Night prayer with blankets (prayer), by Ruth Burgess
Christmas is when I am Joseph (reading), by a group of nine-year-olds

17 pages

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