A Service of the Word for Christmas Day (December 25, 2020)
Welcome to All Hallows Murray's Christmas Day Service--Contemporary Option. . Take a moment to quieten your mind and settle your thoughts. When you are ready, open the first link and hear the glad tidings of comfort and joy.
Opening this link in a new tab to hear John Rutter’s choral arrangement of the Wexford Carol.
1. Good people all, this Christmas time,Consider well and bear in mind
What our good God for us has done,
In sending His belovèd Son.
With Mary holy we should pray
To God with love this Christmas Day;
In Bethlehem upon that morn
There was a blessed Messiah born.
2. The night before that happy tide
The noble virgin and her guide
Were long time seeking up and down
To find a lodging in the town.
But mark how all things came to pass:
From every door repelled, alas!
As long foretold, their refuge all
Was but a humble oxen stall.
3. Near Bethlehem did shepherds keep
Their flocks of lambs and feeding sheep;
To whom God’s angels did appear
Which put the shepherds in great fear.
Prepare and go, the angels said,
To Bethlehem, be not afraid;
For there you’ll find, this happy morn,
A princely babe, sweet Jesus born.
4. With thankful heart and joyful mind,
The shepherds went the babe to find,
And as God’s angel had foretold,
They did our Savior Christ behold.
Within a manger He was laid,
And by His side the virgin maid
Attending on the Lord of Life,
Who came on earth to end all strife.
Coda
Good people all, this Christmas time,
Consider well and bear in mind
What our good God for us has done,
In sending His belovèd Son.
Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit:
And blessed be God’s kingdom, now and for ever. Amen.
The Lord be with you.
The Lord bless you.
O Christ, Son of God, existing before time,
you came into the world to save us.
Lord, have mercy.
Sun of Righteousness, shining with the Father’s love,
you illumine the whole universe.
Christ, have mercy.
Son of Mary: born a child,
you shared our humanity.
Lord, have mercy.
May the Lord forgive what we have been,
help us to amend what we are and direct
what we shall be, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Blessed is the Lord:
Who has heard the voice of our prayer.
Therefore shall our hearts dance for joy:
And in our song will we praise our God.
Open this link to hear the French Christmas carol, “Angels, We Have Heard on High.”
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echo back their joyous strains
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
Sing what may the tidings be
Which inspire your happy song?
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing,
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Let us pray
A short period of silent prayer is recommended before the Collect of the Day is said.
Almighty God,
in the birth pf your Son
you have poured upon us the light of your incarnate Word,
and shown us the fulness of your love;
Help us to walk in hos light and dwell in his love
that we may know the fulness of his joy
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
A reading from the Book of Isaiah
But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who lived in a land of deep darkness—
on them light has shined.
You have multiplied the nation,
you have increased its joy;
they rejoice before you
as with joy at the harvest,
as people exult when dividing plunder.
For the yoke of their burden,
and the bar across their shoulders,
the rod of their oppressor,
you have broken as on the day of Midian.
For all the boots of the tramping warriors
and all the garments rolled in blood
shall be burned as fuel for the fire.
For a child has been born for us,
a son given to us;
authority rests upon his shoulders;
and he is named
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
His authority shall grow continually,
and there shall be endless peace
for the throne of David and his kingdom.
He will establish and uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
from this time onward and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Silence is kept.
Open this link in a new tab to hear John Rutter’s choral arrangement of “Love Came Down at Christmas.”
1 Love came down at Christmas,
love all lovely, Love divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
star and angels gave the sign,
star and angels gave the sign.
2 Worship we the Godhead,
Love incarnate, Love divine;
worship we our Jesus,
but wherewith for sacred sign,
but wherewith for sacred sign?
3 Love shall be our token;
love be yours and love be mine;
love to God and all men,
love for plea and gift and sign.
love for plea and gift and sign.
Silence is kept.
A reading from the Gospel of Luke
In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.” And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying,
“Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace, goodwill among people!”
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Silence is kept.
Wait! What Happened to the Inn?!
A number of myths surround Christmas. One of these myths is that Christmas was originally pagan festival. This myth which has a fairly short history was debunked in the last century. However, it persists. Those perpetuating the myth like modern pagan groups may have an agenda of their own. Or they have not taken the trouble to research Christmas’ origins. They are simply repeating what someone else said or wrote. This myth has caused some Christians to question whether they should celebrate Christmas. After all, there is nothing in the Bible that commands us to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, they may argue. There is also nothing in the Bible that prohibits us from celebrating his birth and from setting apart a day and a season in which we celebrate it.
Dr. Thomas Talley, a long-time professor of liturgics at General Theological Seminary and visiting professor at Notre Dame University, pioneered the debunking of the myth that Christmas is a pagan festival. I attended a seminar on the church year in the 1980s, in which he explained how the early Church went about calculating December 25th as the date of Jesus’ birth. The early Church did not replace a pagan festival with a Christian one as this myth claims. Since the 1980s it has been established that the Romans did not celebrate the festival of Sol Invictus, the pagan winter festival that the early Church supposedly replaced with Christmas.
With this knowledge Christians can in good conscience celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord. They are not celebrating what was once a pagan festival. They are celebrating the birth of the Christ, the Promised One, the Messiah, the Son of David.
When the early Church settled on a date on which it would celebrate our Lord’s birth, it did not decide to devote one day to that celebration. It decided to devote a whole season--the Twelve Days of Christmas. They begin on Christmas Eve and end on Twelfth Night, the eve of the feast of the Epiphany.
Our Lord’s birth was a lowly one. He was not born in a palace. He was born in quite humble surroundings—not in a stable but in the main room of the house of one of Joseph’s relatives in Bethlehem. There was no room for Mary and Joseph in the guest room so Mary had no choice but give birth to Jesus in the main room of the house. It was the room in the house in which most of the daily activities of the household occurred. It was also the room in the house where the livestock were kept. The presence of a manger in the room was not unusual.
“Wait!” you may be thinking to yourself, “What happened to the inn?!” New Testament scholars have re-examined the Greek text of the New Testament and concluded that the Greek word which earlier translators had rendered as “inn” actually refers to a guest room. The New Testament makes no mention of a stable. It does, however, mention a manager and based upon this reference earlier interpreters of the New Testament concluded that where Mary gave birth to Jesus must have been a stable or some other kind of outbuilding detached from a house. In New Testament times houses, except for the wealthier classes, were house-barns. They doubled as barns for the livestock.
Does this mean that we have stop singing Christmas carols and hymns like “In a Bleak Midwinter,” “Once in Royal David’s City,” and “A Stable Lamp Is Lighted”? No. They may have gotten the details of Jesus’ birth wrong but they do celebrate his birth. Celebrating his birth is what matters. They celebrate that the Son of God humbled himself and was born a tiny baby. He became a human being and lived and died as a human being. He knew hunger. He knew thirst. He knew suffering. At the same time, while he was fully human, he was also fully divine. He was both man and God.
Jesus taught with an authority that is God’s alone that we should love God with our entire being and our neighbors as ourselves—not just our kin and our friends, not just the people like us, but all people. He taught his disciples that they should love each other with the same kind of love that he showed for them, a love so great that he would suffer and die on a cross for our sake and for the sake of all humankind. Through his suffering and death he would reconcile God and humanity, heal the divide that our rebellion had created between God and ourselves.
We are apt to think of God as a kindly uncle to who we can turn to when we need something but otherwise we can ignore. But the Bible teach us and Jesus himself affirmed what the Bible teaches, God is our creator and we are his creatures. However we may conceive our creation, that is our relationship to God. We can live in harmony with God, trusting his word and obeying him. Or we can go our own way. God gives us that freedom as his creatures. But going our own way has consequences.
By our own choice we will cut ourselves off from God forever. “How bad could that be?” we may think to ourselves. A lot worse than we can imagine. God is the source of all that is good. He is the source of all that is light. Separated from God there is no joy, only anguish; no light, only darkness; no hope; only despair; no love, only self-loathing.
God sent his Son into the world to spare us from an eternity apart from him. It was an act of mercy toward us—an act of kindness, generosity, and love—what Christian theologians call “grace,” God’s unmerited and undeserved favor and good-will toward us. In celebrating the birth of Jesus, we are celebrating that act.
God sent his Son into the world to spare us from an eternity apart from him. It was an act of mercy toward us—an act of kindness, generosity, and love—what Christian theologians call “grace,” God’s unmerited and undeserved favor and good-will toward us. In celebrating the birth of Jesus, we are celebrating that act of mercy. We are celebrating God's graciousness towards us. Through faith in Jesus we can enjoy fellowship with God, not only in this life but for all eternity. That is God's gift to us. It is a gift that makes all other Christmas gifts pale into insignificance.
Silence is kept.
Open this link a new tab to hear a solo of William Dix’s Christmas carol, “What Child Is This.”
1 What child is this, who, laid to rest,
on Mary's lap is sleeping,
whom angels greet with anthems sweet,
while shepherds watch are keeping?
This, this is Christ the King,
whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
Come! Praise! The infant laud.,
the babe, the son of Mary!
2 Why lies he in such mean estate
where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christian, fear, for sinners here
the silent Word is pleading.
Nails, spear shall pierce him through,
the cross be borne for me, for you.
Hail, hail the Word-made-flesh,
the babe, the son of Mary!
3 So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh;
hold tongues and people own him.
The King of kings salvation brings;
let ev’ry heart enthrone him.
Raise! raise your song on high;
while Mary sings her lullaby.
Joy! joy, for Christ is born,
the babe, the son of Mary!
Silence is kept.
Prayers for ourselves and others may be said.
Let us pray the prayer that Jesus gave us.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done; on earth
as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who
trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.
Almighty God,
we thank you for the gift of your holy word:
may it be a lantern to our feet,
a light upon our paths,
and a strength to our lives.
Take us and use us to love and serve all people
in the power of the Holy Spirit
and in the name of your Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Open this link to hear Sir Phillip Ledger’s choral arrangement of the German carol, “Good Christian Men, Rejoice.”
1 Good Christian men, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice;
give ye heed to what we say:
Jesus Christ was born today.
Ox and ass before him bow,
and he is in the manger now.
Christ is born today!
Christ is born today!
2 Good Christian men, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice;
now ye hear of endless bliss:
Jesus Christ was born for this!
He has ope’d the heavenly door,
and man is blessed forevermore.
Christ was born for this!
Christ was born for this!
Christ was born for this!
Christ was born for this!
3 Good Christian men, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice;
now ye need not fear the grave:
Jesus Christ was born to save!
Calls you one and calls you all
to gain his everlasting hall.
Christ was born, was born to save!
Christ was born to save!
The Lord be with you.
The Lord bless you.
Let us bless the Lord
Thanks be to God
The Lord bless you.
O Christ, Son of God, existing before time,
you came into the world to save us.
Lord, have mercy.
Sun of Righteousness, shining with the Father’s love,
you illumine the whole universe.
Christ, have mercy.
Son of Mary: born a child,
you shared our humanity.
Lord, have mercy.
May the Lord forgive what we have been,
help us to amend what we are and direct
what we shall be, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Blessed is the Lord:
Who has heard the voice of our prayer.
Therefore shall our hearts dance for joy:
And in our song will we praise our God.
Open this link to hear the French Christmas carol, “Angels, We Have Heard on High.”
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echo back their joyous strains
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
Sing what may the tidings be
Which inspire your happy song?
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing,
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Let us pray
A short period of silent prayer is recommended before the Collect of the Day is said.
Almighty God,
in the birth pf your Son
you have poured upon us the light of your incarnate Word,
and shown us the fulness of your love;
Help us to walk in hos light and dwell in his love
that we may know the fulness of his joy
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
A reading from the Book of Isaiah
But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who lived in a land of deep darkness—
on them light has shined.
You have multiplied the nation,
you have increased its joy;
they rejoice before you
as with joy at the harvest,
as people exult when dividing plunder.
For the yoke of their burden,
and the bar across their shoulders,
the rod of their oppressor,
you have broken as on the day of Midian.
For all the boots of the tramping warriors
and all the garments rolled in blood
shall be burned as fuel for the fire.
For a child has been born for us,
a son given to us;
authority rests upon his shoulders;
and he is named
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
His authority shall grow continually,
and there shall be endless peace
for the throne of David and his kingdom.
He will establish and uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
from this time onward and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Silence is kept.
Open this link in a new tab to hear John Rutter’s choral arrangement of “Love Came Down at Christmas.”
1 Love came down at Christmas,
love all lovely, Love divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
star and angels gave the sign,
star and angels gave the sign.
2 Worship we the Godhead,
Love incarnate, Love divine;
worship we our Jesus,
but wherewith for sacred sign,
but wherewith for sacred sign?
3 Love shall be our token;
love be yours and love be mine;
love to God and all men,
love for plea and gift and sign.
love for plea and gift and sign.
Silence is kept.
A reading from the Gospel of Luke
In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.” And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying,
“Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace, goodwill among people!”
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Silence is kept.
Wait! What Happened to the Inn?!
A number of myths surround Christmas. One of these myths is that Christmas was originally pagan festival. This myth which has a fairly short history was debunked in the last century. However, it persists. Those perpetuating the myth like modern pagan groups may have an agenda of their own. Or they have not taken the trouble to research Christmas’ origins. They are simply repeating what someone else said or wrote. This myth has caused some Christians to question whether they should celebrate Christmas. After all, there is nothing in the Bible that commands us to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, they may argue. There is also nothing in the Bible that prohibits us from celebrating his birth and from setting apart a day and a season in which we celebrate it.
Dr. Thomas Talley, a long-time professor of liturgics at General Theological Seminary and visiting professor at Notre Dame University, pioneered the debunking of the myth that Christmas is a pagan festival. I attended a seminar on the church year in the 1980s, in which he explained how the early Church went about calculating December 25th as the date of Jesus’ birth. The early Church did not replace a pagan festival with a Christian one as this myth claims. Since the 1980s it has been established that the Romans did not celebrate the festival of Sol Invictus, the pagan winter festival that the early Church supposedly replaced with Christmas.
With this knowledge Christians can in good conscience celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord. They are not celebrating what was once a pagan festival. They are celebrating the birth of the Christ, the Promised One, the Messiah, the Son of David.
When the early Church settled on a date on which it would celebrate our Lord’s birth, it did not decide to devote one day to that celebration. It decided to devote a whole season--the Twelve Days of Christmas. They begin on Christmas Eve and end on Twelfth Night, the eve of the feast of the Epiphany.
Our Lord’s birth was a lowly one. He was not born in a palace. He was born in quite humble surroundings—not in a stable but in the main room of the house of one of Joseph’s relatives in Bethlehem. There was no room for Mary and Joseph in the guest room so Mary had no choice but give birth to Jesus in the main room of the house. It was the room in the house in which most of the daily activities of the household occurred. It was also the room in the house where the livestock were kept. The presence of a manger in the room was not unusual.
“Wait!” you may be thinking to yourself, “What happened to the inn?!” New Testament scholars have re-examined the Greek text of the New Testament and concluded that the Greek word which earlier translators had rendered as “inn” actually refers to a guest room. The New Testament makes no mention of a stable. It does, however, mention a manager and based upon this reference earlier interpreters of the New Testament concluded that where Mary gave birth to Jesus must have been a stable or some other kind of outbuilding detached from a house. In New Testament times houses, except for the wealthier classes, were house-barns. They doubled as barns for the livestock.
Does this mean that we have stop singing Christmas carols and hymns like “In a Bleak Midwinter,” “Once in Royal David’s City,” and “A Stable Lamp Is Lighted”? No. They may have gotten the details of Jesus’ birth wrong but they do celebrate his birth. Celebrating his birth is what matters. They celebrate that the Son of God humbled himself and was born a tiny baby. He became a human being and lived and died as a human being. He knew hunger. He knew thirst. He knew suffering. At the same time, while he was fully human, he was also fully divine. He was both man and God.
Jesus taught with an authority that is God’s alone that we should love God with our entire being and our neighbors as ourselves—not just our kin and our friends, not just the people like us, but all people. He taught his disciples that they should love each other with the same kind of love that he showed for them, a love so great that he would suffer and die on a cross for our sake and for the sake of all humankind. Through his suffering and death he would reconcile God and humanity, heal the divide that our rebellion had created between God and ourselves.
We are apt to think of God as a kindly uncle to who we can turn to when we need something but otherwise we can ignore. But the Bible teach us and Jesus himself affirmed what the Bible teaches, God is our creator and we are his creatures. However we may conceive our creation, that is our relationship to God. We can live in harmony with God, trusting his word and obeying him. Or we can go our own way. God gives us that freedom as his creatures. But going our own way has consequences.
By our own choice we will cut ourselves off from God forever. “How bad could that be?” we may think to ourselves. A lot worse than we can imagine. God is the source of all that is good. He is the source of all that is light. Separated from God there is no joy, only anguish; no light, only darkness; no hope; only despair; no love, only self-loathing.
God sent his Son into the world to spare us from an eternity apart from him. It was an act of mercy toward us—an act of kindness, generosity, and love—what Christian theologians call “grace,” God’s unmerited and undeserved favor and good-will toward us. In celebrating the birth of Jesus, we are celebrating that act.
God sent his Son into the world to spare us from an eternity apart from him. It was an act of mercy toward us—an act of kindness, generosity, and love—what Christian theologians call “grace,” God’s unmerited and undeserved favor and good-will toward us. In celebrating the birth of Jesus, we are celebrating that act of mercy. We are celebrating God's graciousness towards us. Through faith in Jesus we can enjoy fellowship with God, not only in this life but for all eternity. That is God's gift to us. It is a gift that makes all other Christmas gifts pale into insignificance.
Silence is kept.
Open this link a new tab to hear a solo of William Dix’s Christmas carol, “What Child Is This.”
1 What child is this, who, laid to rest,
on Mary's lap is sleeping,
whom angels greet with anthems sweet,
while shepherds watch are keeping?
This, this is Christ the King,
whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
Come! Praise! The infant laud.,
the babe, the son of Mary!
2 Why lies he in such mean estate
where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christian, fear, for sinners here
the silent Word is pleading.
Nails, spear shall pierce him through,
the cross be borne for me, for you.
Hail, hail the Word-made-flesh,
the babe, the son of Mary!
3 So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh;
hold tongues and people own him.
The King of kings salvation brings;
let ev’ry heart enthrone him.
Raise! raise your song on high;
while Mary sings her lullaby.
Joy! joy, for Christ is born,
the babe, the son of Mary!
Silence is kept.
Prayers for ourselves and others may be said.
Let us pray the prayer that Jesus gave us.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done; on earth
as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who
trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.
Almighty God,
we thank you for the gift of your holy word:
may it be a lantern to our feet,
a light upon our paths,
and a strength to our lives.
Take us and use us to love and serve all people
in the power of the Holy Spirit
and in the name of your Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Open this link to hear Sir Phillip Ledger’s choral arrangement of the German carol, “Good Christian Men, Rejoice.”
1 Good Christian men, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice;
give ye heed to what we say:
Jesus Christ was born today.
Ox and ass before him bow,
and he is in the manger now.
Christ is born today!
Christ is born today!
2 Good Christian men, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice;
now ye hear of endless bliss:
Jesus Christ was born for this!
He has ope’d the heavenly door,
and man is blessed forevermore.
Christ was born for this!
Christ was born for this!
Christ was born for this!
Christ was born for this!
3 Good Christian men, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice;
now ye need not fear the grave:
Jesus Christ was born to save!
Calls you one and calls you all
to gain his everlasting hall.
Christ was born, was born to save!
Christ was born to save!
The Lord be with you.
The Lord bless you.
Let us bless the Lord
Thanks be to God
The God of all grace bless us now and forever. Amen.
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