Posts tagged Christmastide 2021-2022
The Word Became Flesh and Lived Among Us: Christmas Daybook 9

A Christmas Daybook Meditation for these 12 days of festive celebration.

Look: Altar and Reredos for Lady Chapel, John Maddison - Source

Listen: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring, Longon Chamber Orchestra- Spotify | YouTube | Text

Read: Jeremiah 31:7-14; Psalm 147:12-20; Ephesians 1:3-14; John 1:1-9, 10-18

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Second Sunday of Christmas

Do: Sing more Christmas carols!

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New Year: Christmas Daybook 8

A Christmas Daybook Meditation for these 12 days of festive celebration.

Look: Children’s shoes and toys were placed in a makeshift memorial outside the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, where the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children have been discovered in unmarked graves. Dennis Owen/Reuters, Erica - Source

Listen: Lullay, Lullay (Coventry Carol), Annie Lennox - Spotify | YouTube

Read: Psalm 2, 26; Isaiah 49:13-23; Matthew 18:1-14; Psalm 19, 126; Isaiah 54:1-13; Mark 10:13-16

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Feast of Holy Innocents

Do: Bless the children in your family, community, and beyond.

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I Am Making All Things New: Christmas Daybook 7

A Christmas Daybook Meditation for these 12 days of festive celebration.

Look: Peaceable Kingdom, John August Swanson - Source

Listen: O Day of Peace, Josh Garrels - Bandcamp w/ lyrics | Spotify | YouTube

Read: Psalm 46, 48; 1 Kings 3:5-14; James 4:13-17, 5:7-11; John 5:1-15; Psalm 90; Isaiah 65:15b-25; Revelation 21:1-6

Pray: In our 1 Kings passage, we witness Solomon’s prayer for wisdom. As you think back on 2021, how would you answer God’s question to Solomon, “Ask what I should give you.”

Do: Celebrate today, the final day of 2021!

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The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living: Christmas Daybook 6

A Christmas Daybook Meditation for these 12 days of festive celebration.

Simeon with the Infant Jesus, Benjamin West - Source

Listen: Simeon’s Song, The Porter’s Gate - Spotify | YouTube | Lyrics & Score

Read: Psalm 20, 21; Psalm 23, 27 1 Kings 17:17-24; 3 John 1-15; John 4:46-54

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Feast of Holy Innocents

Do: Bless the children in your family, community, and beyond.

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Holy Innocents: Christmas Daybook 5

A Christmas Daybook Meditation for these 12 days of festive celebration.

Look: Children’s shoes and toys were placed in a makeshift memorial outside the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, where the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children have been discovered in unmarked graves. Dennis Owen/Reuters, Erica - Source

Listen: Lullay, Lullay (Coventry Carol), Annie Lennox - Spotify | YouTube

Read: Psalm 2, 26; Isaiah 49:13-23; Matthew 18:1-14; Psalm 19, 126; Isaiah 54:1-13; Mark 10:13-16

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Feast of Holy Innocents

Do: Bless the children in your family, community, and beyond.

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His mother treasured all these things in her heart: Christmas Daybook 2


A Christmas Daybook meditation for these twelve days of festive celebration.

Look: Pinoy Belem with Red Horse, Wayne Forte- Source

Listen: Mary’s Lullaby (Black Haired Boy), The Porter’s Gate [feat. Liz Vice] - Spotify | YouTube | Lyrics & Score

Read: 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26; Psalm 148; Colossians 3:12-17; Luke 2:41-52

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for First Sunday after Christmas

Do: Keep giving on Boxing Day!

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A Child Has Been Born For Us: Christmas Daybook 1


A Christmas Daybook Meditation for these weeks of festive celebration.

Look: Adoration of the Magi Altarpiece, left hand predella panel depicting the Nativity, Gentile da Fabriano - Source

Listen: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly, The Porter’s Gate [feat.Paul Zach & Lauren Plank Goans] - Spotify | YouTube | Lyrics & Score

Read: Isaiah 9:2-7; Psalm 96; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for Christmas Day

Do: Practice gift giving and receiving.

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