Archbishop Thabo Makgoba - Midnight Mass, St George’s Cathedral ‘Mary treasured these words, and pondered them in her heart’
24 December 2009
Isaiah 9: 2-7
No Psalm - While shepherds watched…
Titus 2:11-14
Gradual Hymn When our God came to earth
Luke 2:1-20
‘Mary treasured these words, and pondered them in her heart’ May I speak in the name of God, the Everlasting Father, whose Eternal Son is born among us – our Saviour and our Prince of Peace – by the power of his Holy Spirit. Amen.
(Deviate: Motivating my daughter today to join us at mid night service, I said. “Pabi, join us, you have not heard this sermon before.” She pondered and then asked, “Daddy do you usually use the same sermon everywhere else?” Pabi offered me a gift, a gift out of the mouth of babes, that is, to offer Jesus as gift and not myself – so here, on this theme, is my new sermon for tonight!)
