This is, more or less, what I saw. Apparently the last lunar eclipse on this Summer (or Winter!) Solstice was watched by Galileo Galilei who was under house arrest in 1638 for suggesting the Earth circled the Sun.
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textweek resources scripture readings • collect/opening prayer reflection 1st Sunday after Christmas [Common Worship CofE] BCP TEC: Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts,may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you,
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O king of the nations, you alone can fulfil their desires: cornerstone, binding all together: come and save the creature you fashioned from the dust of the earth. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti. Jeremiah 30.7-11a; Revelation
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The Christmas Story – as told by the children of St Paul’s Church, Auckland. Christmas 2.0 The Christmas Story
O morning star, splendour of the light eternal and bright sun of righteousness: come and bring light to those who dwell in darkness and walk in the shadow of death. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. O Oriens, splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae: veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis. Numbers 24.15b-17; Luke 1:78,
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Textweek resources • collect/opening prayer reflection Christmas • another collect/opening prayer reflection Christmas Roman Catholics and Anglicans/Episcopalians and others pray the same collects at this time of year: New translation, RC Received Text: O God, who have made this most sacred night radiant with the splendour of the true Light, grant, we pray, that we
O key of David and sceptre of the House of Israel; you open and none can shut; you shut and none can open: come and free the captives from prison, and break down the walls of death. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. […come, and lead the prisoner from jail. seated in darkness and in the shadow
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O root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the nations; kings will keep silence before you for whom the nations long; come and save us and delay no longer. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. O Radix Jesse, qui stas in signum populorum, super quem continebunt reges os suum, quem gentes deprecabuntur: veni ad liberandum nos,
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