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| courtesy of Jean and Alexander Heard Divinity Library at Vanderbilt |
click to listen to Christmas sermon 2015
This Christmas Sermon comes from the text of Luke 1:39-55. The scene that is set follows the angelic announcement to Mary, when she goes with great urgency to find her relative Elizabeth. While the previous passages focused on great times of upheaval, St. Luke focuses our attention on a small, personal, and intimate scene. The greeting of Elizabeth and Mary and the song (Magnificat) of Mary sung in joyful anticipation of the birth of her son, Jesus who would be the Savior of the world. This text, like much in the Gospel of Luke focuses our attention on what we might consider to be a small and trivial detail, or people that we might otherwise pass by. Not the powerful and mighty but the humble and meek. Ultimately, it is the form of a defenseless and vulnerable child that God comes to us as the word made flesh.
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