Merry Christmas!
The Mass of the Feast of the Nativity (Christ Mass) is a wonderful celebration of Joy and Hope!
We were Blessed to experience this Joy together in each of the parish missions of St. Michael Anglican Ministries.
Thank You to all who came to Worship with us!
We pray that You have a Blessed and Merry Christmas!
Thank You to the members and staff of our Parishes...
Thank You to all those who put so much work into making these parish missions a reality - who give of your time and your talents to acolyte, prepare tha altar, serve, read, usher, provide flowers, pray with others, put up tables, give generously, clean up, create beautiful items for the church, etc., etc. - the list is endless!
Unto us a Child is Born! Unto Us a Son is Given!
"Unto the King new-born new praises sing,
Whose Father by his word did frame the worlds,
Whose mother a most hallow’d virgin is;
Begotten of the Father, God of God,
Born of his mother without carnal stain,
Word of the Father ere the world was made,
In the full time forth from his mother’s womb
He issues in a human body veil’d.
O wonderful, mysterious generation!
O most astonishing nativity!
O glorious child! O Deity incarnate!
So had the prophets, by thy Spirit moved,
Declared thou should’st be born, thou Son of God!
So, at thy dawning, angels sing thee praises,
And to the earth glad tidings bring of peace.
The face of all the elements is gladden’d,
And all the saints exultingly rejoice,
Crying, All hail! save us, we pray, O God,
In persons trine, one undivided substance"
(Sequence Hymn for the Sarum Mass of Christmas Day)
