Tuesday, December 25, 2012 — Christmas
Christmas Day
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Today’s Readings for the Daily Office (Book of Common Prayer, p. 940)
Psalms 2, 85 (morning) // 110:1-5(6-7), 132 (evening)
Zechariah 2:10-13
1 John 4:7-16
John 3:31-36
At this feast of the nativity
let each person wreathe the door of his heart
so that the Holy Spirit may delight in that door,
enter in and take up residence there;
then by the spirit we will be made holy.
Ephrem of Syria
quoted in Robert Atwell, Celebrating the Seasons, Canterbury Press, Norwich, 1999, p. 43