An Old Christmas Sermon and Prayer

A sermon by St. Augustine (5th Century) and a prayer by St. Ephraim the Syrian (4th Century)

Old words are gifts to my soul. It is a joy to open these words — a few lines from a 5th-century sermon and a 4th-century prayer — and share them with you.

But better than these words are their witness to the gift that changes everything. Read carefully the words and see the real gift: what God has given us because Jesus came.

AN ANCIENT SERMON

Wake up, …