Advent: photo of three kings

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NATIVITY PILGRIMAGE

• Advent photo of three kings

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Why couldnt it happen now?
Why couldnt it happen here?
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Lets go on a pilgrimage
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We start in the cold North
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• Inuit
• family
• with
• new
• baby.

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to sing Gods praise
Heads raise
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• Wolf
• howls
• with
• joy

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Seal looks on with curiosity
Otter indifferently plays with his clam
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Where are the tribal elders?
They were here the night before...
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see the gifts they left
Walrus tusks and fish and fur
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How did they find the infant?
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Aurora Borealis, the light that rests beyond

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and inukshuk, in the image of persons, guided the
cold night visitors.
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Qujannamiik, Great Creator , thank you
(coo-yan-a-mee-ick)
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We cross the vast ocean to what was once called
the dark continent
Now transformed into light.
The hope of the ages has come.
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Where are the angels to guide us?
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They tell the story and lead the way.
Listen to the drums
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With gifts balanced on our head,
We embark on the dusty road
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stopping only to share our food
with fellow pilgrims.
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Ah, there he is!
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Asifiwe, Mungu! Asifiwe.
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• Many times when we imagine how it was
• Joseph, kind Joseph is standing at a distance,
  just looking on.
• Vulnerable, confused. Stunned perhaps.
• Making way for wiser men than him.

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Step up, daddy Joseph.
Visiting hours are over
claim your identity.
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Lift your child to the sky. Caress his
face. Change his diaper.
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Tickle him, make him laugh. What fun!
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• The color of our skin,
• The shape of our nose,
• The texture of our hair
• We celebrate the differences.

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The Holy Infant belongs to you, to me, to
everyone.
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Gospel choirs will be singing his praises
and be jazzed by him through the ages
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Amen, brothers and sisters,
Amen!
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Grandpa Joe made this stable
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Grandma glazed the figures.
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• Its old and worn

Weve had it a long time
It is very old and worn
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See the donkeys broken ears
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• Childs nativity with childs hands

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• Second scene of childs hands

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This nativity was gilded in gold by
master artisans
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who took great care.
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We imagine how it was then,
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And we try to recreate the image now
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With a few poor scraps of fabric
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Sewn with loving hands.
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Then
Now
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Poor
Rich
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Far
Near
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Worship Christ, the new-born king.
Come and worship
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• Nativity Scenes and Text Lu
  Mountenay
• Nativity Photography Jenn Killpack

The End