Lovely, True, Good News

                                Monday musical meditations on God's good news      An opening prayer:      Let us all with gladsome voice      Praise the God of heaven      Who, to bid our hearts rejoice,      His own Son has given.      To this vale of tears he comes,      Here to serve in sadness,      That with him in heaven’s fair homes      We may reign in gladness.      We are rich, for he was poor;      Is not this a wonder?      Therefore praise God evermore      Here on earth and yonder.      O Lord Christ, our Savior dear,      Bless us and be near us.      Grant us now a glad new year.      Amen, Jesus, hear us! Matthew 2:13 –23 When they had gone...

                               Monday musical meditations on God's good news      An opening prayer:      Hark! The herald angels sing,      “Glory to the newborn King;      Peace on earth, and mercy mild,      God and sinners reconciled!”      Joyful, all ye nations rise,      Join the triumph of the skies;      With th’angelic host proclaim,      “Christ is born in Bethlehem!”           Hark! the herald angels sing,           “Glory to the newborn King!”      Christ, by highest Heav’n adored;     C hrist the everlasting Lord;      Late in time, behold Him come,      Offspring of a virgin’s womb.      Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;  ...

                              Monday musical meditations on God's good news      An opening prayer:      On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry      announces that the Lord is nigh;      Come, then and listen, for he brings      good news about the King of kings.      Then cleansed be every life from sin;      and furnished for a guest within,      And let us all our hearts prepare      for Christ to come and enter there.      We hail you as our Savior, Lord,      our Refuge and our great Reward;      Without your grace we waste away      like flowers that wither and decay.      Stretch forth your hand, our health restore,      and lift us up to fall no more.      Oh, make your fac...