Post Communion, Christmas Night (Redub)

God our friend and rescuer,

all our hopes and fears

have been met in you tonight.

May the Spirit release us from fear

and the Christ-child give light to hope.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 6.2 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 10.8 years.

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

Christmas Night Collection of 3 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.