Christmas Magic

Magical things happened in our Christmas Eve services at Holy Nativity Episcopal Church last evening, something different each time. You had to be there. The congregation of our ten o’clock service was blessed by our Rector’s incomparable Christmas sermon. Everyone who wasn’t there to hear it will always be impoverished without ever knowing it. The sermon was truly magic, like stars being sprinkled on us.

At our four o’clock service our children’s choir sang so beautifully that it was all anyone could possibly ask or want for Christmas. One song was so timely, poignant, lovely and touching that I could hardly bear it:

You be an angel, I’ll be a star We’ll shine down on Bethlehem. Calling people near and far, Calling them to Bethlehem.

Listen to the angel, look at the star, Come to Bethlehem tonight. The world is needy, much is wrong, But even more is right, in Bethlehem tonight.

You be an angel, I'll be a star.

As our own little angels sang, these far away angels and those who loved them were in my heart and mind:

Charlotte Bacon, 6

Grace McDonnell, 7

Dawn Hochsprung, 47

Daniel Barden, 7

Emilie Parker, 6

Rachel Davino, 29

Olivia Engel, 6

Jack Printo, 6

Anna Marie Murphy, 52

Josephine Gay, 7

Noah Pozner, 6

Lauren Russeau, 30

Ana M. Marquez-Green, 6

Caroline Previdi, 6

Mary Sherlach, 56

Dylan Hockley, 6

Jessica Rehos, 6

Victoria Soto

Madeline F. Hsu, 6

Aville Richman, 6

Catherine V. Hubbard, 6

Benjamin Wheeler, 6

Chase Kowalski, 7

Allison Wyatt, 6

Jesse Lewis, 6

James Mattioli, 6

You had to be there. It was all the magic of Christmas.

Fr. Tom+