Tonight, our community will be celebrating its first Christmas together. And once again, we will read the familiar words from the Gospel of Luke: “It came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.” And we will know that Christmas has truly begun. These words have become so much part of our Christmas folklore that we hardly seem to register the revolution that the evangelist Luke is announcing here.
It came to pass
It came to pass
It came to pass
Tonight, our community will be celebrating its first Christmas together. And once again, we will read the familiar words from the Gospel of Luke: “It came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.” And we will know that Christmas has truly begun. These words have become so much part of our Christmas folklore that we hardly seem to register the revolution that the evangelist Luke is announcing here.