Daily Archives: December 24, 2010
The true light in the darkness (Christms Eve)
O Light that shines in the our darkness : come and free us from our sin.
Early church father Epiphanius wrote, “The righteous person will shine a hundred times more brightly than the sun, and once saved, even the smallest among you will shine a hundred times more brightly than the moon.”
We await your coming, Lord, with eagerness and thanksgiving and a fair amount of fear. Shine your true light in the corners of our hearts and in the vast wastelands of our society that we might see more clearly the glory of the creation you have come to redeem. Amen.
Excerpted from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, edited by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Enuma Okoro.
