OUR SAVIOR IS BORN

BUT YOU / BETHLEHEM EPHRATHA / THOUGH YOU ARE SMALL AMONG THE
CLANS OF JUDAH / OUT OF YOU WILL COME FOR ME / ONE / WHO WILL BE
RULER OVER ISRAEL / WHOSE ORIGIN ARE FROM OLD / FROM ANCIENT TIMES
//
NOW / IN THE SIXTH MONTH / THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT FROM GOD TO A
CITY IN GALILEE CALLED NAZARETH//
TO A VIRGIN / ENGAGED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH / OF THE
DESENDANTS OF DAVID / AND THE VIRGINS NAME WAS MARY
AND COMING IN / HE SAID TO HER //
GREETINGS / FAVORED ONE / THE LORD IS WITH YOU /
BUT SHE WAS PERPLEXED WITH THIS STATEMENT / AND KEPT PONDERING /
WHAT KIND OF SITUATION THIS WAS //
THE ANGEL / SAID TO HER //
DO NOT BE AFRAID / FOR YOU / HAVE FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD //
AND BEHOLD / YOU WILL CONCIEVE IN YOUR WOMB
AND BEAR A SON,
AND YOU SHALL NAME HIM / JESUS /
HE WILL BE GREAT / AND WILL BE CALLED THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH / AND
THE LORD WILL GIVE HIM THE THRONE / OF HIS FATHER DAVID //
AND HE WILL BE REIGN / OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB FOREVER / AND HIS
KINGDOM / WILL HAVE NO END //
IN THOSE DAYS / CAESAR AUGUSTUS / ISSUED A DECREE / THAT A CENSUS /
SHOULD BE TAKEN OF THE ENTIRE HUMAN WORLD //
SO JOSEPH ALSO WENT FROM THE TOWN OF NAZARETH IN GALILEE
TO JUDEA
TO BETHLEHEM / THE TOWN OF DAVID,
BECAUSE HE BELONGED TO THE HOUSE AND LINE OF DAVID
WHILE THEY WERE THERE / THE TIME CAME FOR THE BABY TO BORN
AND SHE GAVE BIRTH TO HER FIRSTBORN / A SON,
SHE WRAPPED / HIM IN A CLOTH / AND PLACED HIM / IN A MANGER BECAUSE
THERE WAS NO GUEST ROOM / AVAILABLE FOR THEM.
AND THERE WERE SHEPARDS / LIVING OUT IN A FIELD NEARBY / KEEPING
WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT
AN ANGEL OF THE LORD / APPEARED TO RHEM
AND THEY WERE TERRIFIED
BUT THE AGELS / SAID TO THEM

DO NOT BE AFRAID / I BRING YOU GOOD NEWS / THAT WILL CAUSE GREAT JOY
/ FOR ALL THE PEOPLE//
TODAY / IN THE TOWN OF DAVID / A SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN TO YOU / HE IS
THE MESSIAH / THE LORD //
THIS WILL BE A SIGN TO YOU
YOU WILL FIND A BABY / WRAPPED IN CLOTHES / AND LYING IN THE MANGER.
SUDDENLY / A GREAT COMPANY OF THE HEAVENLY HOST / APPEARED
WITH THE ANGEL PRAISING GOD / AND SAYING //
GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST HEAVEN AND ON EARTH / TO THOSE WHOM
HIS FAVOUR RESTS//
WHEN THE ANGELS HAD LEFT THEM AND GONE INTO HEAVEN / THE SHEPERDS
SAID TO ONE ANOTHER/
LETS GO TO BETHLEHEM / AND SEE THE THINGS THAT HAS HAPPENED /
WHICH THE LORD HAS TOLD US ABOUT
SO THEY HURRIED OFF
AND FOUND MARY AND JOSEPH
AND THE BABY WHO WAS LYING IN THE MANGER.
WHEN THEY HAD SEEN HIM THEY SPREAD THE WORDS / CONCERNING WHAT
HAD BEEN TOLD THEM ABOUT THIS CHILD.
AND ALL WHO HEARD IT WERE AMAZED / AT WHAT THE SHEPERD SAID TO
THEM
THE SHEPERD RETURNED GLORIFYING
AND PRAISING GOD
FOR ALL THE THINGS THEY HEARD AND SEEN WHICH THEY WERE JUST AS
THEY HAD BEEN TOLD.