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    Essential Christmas Prayers
    Essential Christmas Prayers
    Essential Christmas Prayers
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    Essential Christmas Prayers

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    This beautiful collection of inspiring holiday prayers will bring back heartwarming memories and open new understanding of the sacred season. Many of us feel a little closer to our faith during the Christmas season—even those without a regular faith practice. Around us, people are talking about peace on Earth and goodwill towards all, while deeply rooted Christmas rituals and traditions and familiar prayers speak to our hearts—a refreshing respite in this age.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParaclete Press
    Release dateOct 3, 2017
    ISBN9781640600423
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      Essential Christmas Prayers - Paraclete Press

      Essential

      Christmas

      Prayers

      PARACLETE PRESS

      PARACLETE PRESS

      BREWSTER, MASSACHUSETTS

      2017 First Printing

      Essential Christmas Prayers

      Copyright © 2017 by Paraclete Press, Inc.

      ISBN 978-1-61261-969-9

      Scripture references marked (NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked (KJV) are taken from the King James Version, in the public domain.

      All quotations from the Daily Office Lectionary of the Book of Common Prayer as adopted by the General Convention of 1928 and amended by subsequent Conventions.

      Pope John XXIII’s Prayer "O Sweet Child of Bethlehem", copyright © LIBRERIA EDITRICE VATICANA

      The Paraclete Press name and logo (dove on cross) are trademarks of Paraclete Press, Inc.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Paraclete Press.

      Title: Essential Christmas prayers.

      Description: Brewster, Massachusetts : Paraclete Press Inc., 2017.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017028329 | ISBN 9781612619699 (trade paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Christmas—Prayers and devotions. | Carols, English.

      Classification: LCC BV45 .E87 2017 | DDC 242/.335—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017028329

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      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in an electronic retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Published by Paraclete Press

      Brewster, Massachusetts

      www.paracletepress.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Introduction

      Christmas Prayer from Space

      Bidding Prayer for Christmastide

      Moonless Darkness BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

      Love Came Down at Christmas BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

      Excerpt from a Children’s Carol BY MARTIN LUTHER

      A Christmas Prayer for the Home BY HENRY VAN DYKE

      A Christmas Prayer for the Lonely Folks BY HENRY VAN DYKE

      Loving Mother of the Redeemer

      A Little Child of Love BY EDWARD BOUVERIE PUSEY

      Prayers for Lighting of the Weekly Candles in Advent

      First Sunday of Advent

      Second Sunday of Advent

      Third Sunday of Advent

      Fourth Sunday of Advent

      Other Prayers for Advent

      The O Antiphons and O come, O come, Emmanuel

      O Sapientia

      O Adonai

      O Radix Jesse

      O Clavis David

      O Oriens

      O Rex Gentium

      O Emmanuel

      O come, O come, Emmanuel—THE FAMILIAR VERSION

      O come, O come, Emmanuel—ANOTHER VERSION

      Other Advent Prayers in Song

      Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus

      Come, Thou Redeemer of the Earth

      Christmas Prayers from the Saints

      St. Andrew the Apostle (B. EARLY 1ST CENTURY AD)

      St. Ephraim the Syrian (AD 306–373)

      St. Augustine of Hippo (AD 354–440)

      St. Bernard of Clairvaux (AD 1090–1153)

      Pope St. John XXIII (AD 1881–1963)

      Pope St. John Paul II

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