Christmas Day!

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

This Christmas morning, as I look at Mary, Joseph, and the Christ Child in the manger,
the Hymn: “Sleep Holy Babe” comes to mind:
Sleep! Holy Babe! upon Thy mother’s breast;
Great Lord of earth and sea and sky,
How sweet it is to see Thee lie
In such a place of rest,
In such a place of rest.
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Sleep! Holy Babe! Thine angels watch around,
All bending low with folded wings,
Before th’incarnate King of kings,
In reverent awe profound.
In reverent awe profound.
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Sleep! Holy Babe! while I with Mary gaze
In joy upon that face awhile,
Upon the loving infant smile
Which there divinely plays.
Which there divinely plays.
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Sleep! Holy Babe! ah! take Thy brief repose;
Too quickly will Thy slumbers break,
And Thou to lengthened pains awake
That death alone shall close,
That death alone shall close.
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Blessed Christmas to all!
 
A Blessed and Sincere Blessed Merry Christmas To All.

Nativity Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian

The feast day of your birth resembles You, Lord
Because it brings joy to all humanity.
Old people and infants alike enjoy your day.
Your day is celebrated
from generation to generation.
Kings and emperors may pass away,
And the festivals to commemorate them soon lapse.
But your festival
will be remembered until the end of time.
Your day is a means and a pledge of peace.
At Your birth heaven and earth were reconciled,
Since you came from heaven to earth on that day
You forgave our sins and wiped away our guilt.
You gave us so many gifts on the day of your birth:
A treasure chest of spiritual medicines for the sick;
Spiritual light for the blind;
The cup of salvation for the thirsty;
The bread of life for the hungry.
In the winter when trees are bare,
You give us the most succulent spiritual fruit.
In the frost when the earth is barren,
You bring new hope to our souls.
In December when seeds are hidden in the soil,
The staff of life springs forth from the virgin womb
St. Ephraim the Syrian (AD 306-373)
 
A most Blessed Christmas to all here at CAF and to all of your families!
In the love of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
Mark
*Gospel Lk 2:15-20
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When the angels went away from them to heaven,
the shepherds said to one another,
“Let us go, then, to Bethlehem
to see this thing that has taken place,
which the Lord has made known to us.”
So they went in haste and found Mary and Joseph,
and the infant lying in the manger.
When they saw this,
they made known the message
that had been told them about this child.
All who heard it were amazed
by what had been told them by the shepherds.
And Mary kept all these things,
reflecting on them in her heart.
Then the shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God
for all they had heard and seen,
just as it had been told to them.*
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Merry Christmas to everyone here. We don’t celebrate in the Coptic Orthodox Church until January 7, but here is a Christmas hymn for everybody celebrating today: Today is born of the Virgin

May the Lord bless you all on this holy day.
 
To all of my brothers and sisters in Christ on CAF and everywhere -
a very merry Christmas and a blessed and happy new year!
God bless you all !

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Merry Christmas!

Beautiful to read! 😃

🙂 🙂 🙂 Merry Christmas everyone! 🙂 🙂 🙂

'Today the Virgin gives birth to him who is above all being,
and the earth offers a cave to him whom no one can approach.
Angels with shepherds give glory,
and magi journey with a star,
for to us there has been born

a little Child, God before the ages.

Bethlehem has opened Eden, come, let us see;
we have found delight in secret, come, let us receive
the joys of Paradise within the cave.
There the unwatered root whose blossom is forgiveness has appeared.
There has been found the undug well
from which David once longed to drink.

There a virgin has borne a babe
and has quenched at once Adam’s and David’s thirst.
For this, let us hasten to this place where there has been born

a little Child, God before the ages.’
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Thank you to all who responded to this thread for Christmas Day. May we continue to gaze upon His Face with Mary, as St. Joseph did, on that First Christmas. By God’s Grace, may this year be for each one of us, a deeper, truer living of Christ’s Life, day by day.

As Mary and Joseph did, may we learn from our Humble Lord Jesus. As Mary and Joseph did, may we grow each day in faith, hope and above all charity. May we listen to Him in His Word, even when we do not always understand, remembering that Mary and Joseph did not understand Jesus when he spoke to them as a 12 year old in the temple.

Holy Family, bless our families and the families throughout the world.
 
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