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Prayers of hope
for Christmas

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→ shepherds  

→ magi

→ flight

This sequence of four Christmas Prayers of hope were written as unspoken visual prayers for the carol service at St Johns, West Ealing in 2011. Each followed the appropriate bible reading and was shown on screen with a series of visual images, accompanied by music. The prayers could of course also be spoken.

There were six prayers in all: for the opening prayer ("dream") the poem Come, Immanuel was used, and for the last ("light") some words from Tim Hughes' song Light of the world were sung.