Epiphany daybook, week 1: Jesus was a refugee

My Epiphany daybook for this first week of witness. Join me, won't you? (see all of the Epiphany daybook posts from 2015 here)

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look

Christmas In An Iraqi Refugee Camp

source
Click Play icon to hear Malcolm Guite read his sonnet "Refugee"

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read

Exodus 2:11-25: But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian 

Matthew 2:13-15: "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt..."

{all readings for the day: Psalm 110; Exodus 2:11-25; Matthew 2:13-15; Hebrews 11:27-28}

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pray 

God of revelation, as we gather in praise for the gracious mystery of your Son, we remember the many needs of your church and your world.

Insert here Prayers of the People (p. 383, BCP) or your own words of intercession.

Guide us on the path of salvation, O God, that the radiance and power of your Holy Spirit working in the world will gather together all peoples and nations in one community to offer you worship and proclaim your splendor.  Amen. (source)

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listen

Long Way Around the Sea

Low

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make 

Make a list of those you know serving the foreigner in our nation or who have chosen to live as a foreigner around the world. Pray for them.  Next, pray that you'd be able to bless the strangers and the displaced you meet in your own city.

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