Additional Collect, Christmas Eve (Redub)

Loving God,

you embraced the world with love,

when, in Jesus, you were taken

into the embrace of Mary and Joseph.

May we join the joy of creation,

as you liberate our world and our lives.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 6.01 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 15.62 years.

Here's the information on how this prayer is a redub.

Christmas Eve Collection of 5 prayers is here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project runs from Advent 2012 to Advent 2013.

If you want to use the prayers, an acknowledgement of myself as author and, if there's space, the url to my blog would be much appreciated.