let us ask God for a good Christmas: that no powerful nation should tax the poor or uproot them; -------------------------------------------------------------------------- that no unmarried mother should be put away in disgrace; ------------------------------------------------------------------------- that no door will be shut on those that need to find it open; ------------------------------------------------------------------------- that shepherds and sheep and all of nature need not be afraid; ------------------------------------------------------------------------- that walls, barbed wire and angry soldiers may not be found in Bethlehem; ------------------------------------------------------------------------- that wise men and wise women might appear in Wales, in Scotland, in Ireland, in England, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in your street;
------------------------------------------------------------------------ that children may be preserved from those who would abuse them; ------------------------------------------------------------------------- that this Christmas, you may become a manger and your home a stable and the rumour become a reality that Christ has come among us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And this we pray in Jesus’ name AMEN
