The First Sunday of Christmas

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White

Principal Service
1 Samuel 2.18-20, 26
Psalm 148*
Colossians 3.12-17
Luke 2.41-52

Third Service
Psalm 105.1-11
Isaiah 41.21 - 42.1
1 John 1.1-7

Second Service
Psalm 132
Isaiah 61
Galatians 3.27 - 4.7
Gospel at Holy Communion:
Luke 2.15-21

Collect

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,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Post Communion

Heavenly Father,
whose blessed Son shared at Nazareth the life of an earthly home:
help your Church to live as one family,
united in love and obedience,
and bring us all at last to our home in heaven;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Additional Collect

This provision is not used on weekdays after 5 January.
God in Trinity,
eternal unity of perfect love:
gather the nations to be one family,
and draw us into your holy life
through the birth of Emmanuel,
our Lord Jesus Christ.

BCP: The First Sunday after Christmas

BCP Holy Communion

Isaiah 62.10-12
Psalm 45.1-7
Galatians 4.1-7
Matthew 1.18-25

BCP Collect

Almighty God, who hast given us thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin: Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end.