OPENING REMARKS
Welcome to 2013! Congratulations to everyone who have survive the end of the world and the end of 2012. Your own faith in life itself has brought you here to 2013.
CONFESSIONS
We confide that we are only human hardly knowing what is right and what is wrong. And so we beseech the One who knows everything or almost everything to act upon us with kindness and mercy upon our own imperfect humanity. We beseech this now and throughout the year of 2013 as the Lord our God gives us the time to live our lives. Lord, have mercy.
HYMN OF PRAISE
The Lord is great
The Lord is strong
He maketh all that is in this world.
The Lord is great
The Lord is strong
In him my trust I put my all.
Hail, hail, the everlasting Lord
My sins I give to my everlasting Lord!
Peace, peace, shall my God to me
Giveth in reply to my reverie.
Giveth in reply to my reverie.
READING OF THE GOSPEL
A reading from the gospel of Matthew 1, Verse 18 to 25.
Now this is the story of the birth of Jesus.
A woman named Mary was engaged to marry Joseph, but when he found out the she was with child, he quietly told her that he will not go through with the engagement of marriage. But after he had done so, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying, "Joseph, Joseph, wake up! Do not be bothered by the pregnancy of Mary. For the child she bear on her came from God Himself. And this child shall be your son, and you are to name him Jesus."
The words of the angel happened to fulfill the words of God's prophet, "A virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call him Emmanuel, meaning "God is with us"."
And so when Joseph awoke, he obediently obeyed the words of the angel, for Joseph himself was an obedient son of God. And thus was born the baby Jesus here on earth.
This is the word of the Lord.
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