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Christmastide 2008
Dear Friends,
One of my favorite Christmas carols is Christina Rossetti’s “In
the bleak mid-winter” in popular settings by Gustav Holst and
Harold Darke. As I sit down to write these Christmas words to
you it is in the middle of the big December snow storm. But even
now there are more and more bleak days, and we know that the
days of “frosty wind” and “earth hard as iron” are imminent.
Perhaps at no other time of the year are we so receptive to
God’s message of joy and hope and the promise of light. We are a
people and world for yearn for these things. The bleakness and
hardness of our hearts long for these promises just as much as
the shepherds and Wise Men of that first Christmas so long ago.
No services of the church year fill us and satisfy our hungers
as much as the service of Christmas Eve. I want to extend an
invitation to you to be at our traditional service. Join with
the shepherds of the carol and sing, “What can I give him – give
my heart.”
Invite or bring someone to worship with you at one of these
wonderful and joyous services. You can help spread God’s good
news.
May God bless you this Christmas season.
The Rev'd Michael Dudley
Priest-in-Charge
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