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Christmas Prayer Service 25 Dec 10-11-12
Christmas Prayer Service 25 Dec 10-11-12
Don Bosco Youth Services Matunga, MUMBAI 400 019 Tel: 24154477 E-mail: avecmatunga@gmail.com
Christmas is not as much as opening our presents as opening our hearts. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. Live Nativity scene on the stage throughout the service. The Skit on The Spirit of Christmas. 25 December 2011 Christmas Day Luke 2: What Child Is This Ref: http://youtu.be/nwyvWQxoVhk O Come all ye faithful Ref: http://youtu.be/bEatq5Rb1HE
Requirements: A Teacher and 2/3 student leaders will take full responsibility for prior preparation: 1. Arrange and organize the prayer service, with prior preparation for the requirements. 2. Prepare the Rituals A: The Live nativity scene Joseph, Mary and Baby on the stage Ritual B: Practice the skit with the kit earlier with Santa on the stage 3. The choir to practice earlier and sing. 4. Assign 4 readers to responsibly render their role, practice earlier to set the tone of prayerful devotion and let the prayer flow with meaningful pauses without flaw. 5. Display prominently The Theme, Quote and the Logo. Introduction: (As the assembly gathers, Christmas carols will be played. Live Nativity Scene on the stage as a backdrop throughout the prayer service.) Leader: Today we are here to commemorate a sacred historical event - the birth of Jesus Christ, the saviour of mankind which took place in Israel 2 millennium years ago. Christmas is celebrated annually on December 25 by billions of people around the world as a joyful ending of the calendar year. Christmas is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ to the Virgin Mary as a fulfillment of the Old Testament's Messianic prophecy. Two thousand years ago God sent a gift wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. Jesus is Gods Christmas gift to humankind. To experience Christmas joy we need personally receive Gods gift in Jesus Christ. Let us join the choir in singing What Child Is This. Choir: What Child Is This Ref: http://youtu.be/nwyvWQxoVhk
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(After a brief pause .) Leader: Prayer: O God, who wonderfully created the dignity of human nature and still more wonderfully restored it. Grant we pray, that we may share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. Reader 4: Christmas is the day that holds all time together. Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day. This is the heart of Christmas. The baby in Bethlehem's manger was a gift, a present from a loving heavenly father to his lost and hurting children. Think of it this way: He didnt send a committee. He didnt write a book. He didnt send a substitute. No, when God got ready to save the world, he offered the best that he had - his one and only Son. And in sending Jesus, he was really sending himself. This is the stupendous truth of ChristmasEmmanuelGod with us. Let us express our devotion as we join the choir in singing O Come all ye faithful Choir: O Come all ye faithful Ref: http://youtu.be/bEatq5Rb1HE May the miracle of Christmas fill your heart with warmth and love to spread from home to home, from heart to heart, from one place to another. All the songs of Christmas have a universal appeal. Let us sing the song We wish you a Merry Christmas' to bring a smile on the face of those who listen. .. Prayer Song 1: What Child Is This Ref: http://youtu.be/nwyvWQxoVhk
1. What Child is this who, laid to rest / On Mary's lap is sleeping?
Whom Angels greet with anthems sweet,/ While shepherds watch are keeping?
*Building a New Humanity Through Universal Values* PRAYER SERVICE FROM AVEC
Good Christians, fear, for sinners here / The silent Word is pleading. (Chorus)
3. Nails, spear shall pierce Him through,/ The cross be borne for me, for you.
Hail, hail the Word made flesh,/ The Babe, the Son of Mary. (Chorus)
4. So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh,/ Come peasant, king to own Him;
The King of kings salvation brings,/ Let loving hearts enthrone Him. (Chorus)
5. Raise, raise a song on high,/ The virgin sings her lullaby.
Joy, joy for Christ s born,/ The Babe, the Son of Mary. (Chorus) Prayer Song 2: O Come all ye faithful Ref: http://youtu.be/bEatq5Rb1HE O Come All Ye Faithful Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold Him, Born the King of Angels; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. O Sing, choirs of angels, Sing in exultation, Sing all that hear in heaven God's holy word. Give to our Father glory in the Highest; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. All Hail! Lord, we greet Thee, Born this happy morning, O Jesus! for evermore be Thy name adored. Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him,
*Building a New Humanity Through Universal Values* PRAYER SERVICE FROM AVEC
*Building a New Humanity Through Universal Values* PRAYER SERVICE FROM AVEC