Saturday, December 25, 2010

Prayer for Christmas Day (Methodist Service Book 1975)

All praise to you, Almighty God and heavenly king, who sent your son into the world to take our nature upon him and to be born of a pure virgin. Grant that as we have been born again in him, so he may continually dwell in us, and reign on earth as he reigns in heaven with you and the Holy Spirit, now and forever.
Almighty God, who wonderfully created us in your own image and yet more wonderfully restored us through your Son Jesus Christ: grant that as he came to share in our humanity, so we may share the life of his divinity; who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.