Advent Benediction: Good News Of Great Joy To All People (based on Luke 1:46-55, Matthew 4:16)

Like Jesus' mother Mary, may we rejoice in the fact that the gift of God's love and grace is available to everyone; even those who society sees as having low status and those who are marginalized by the forces of greed and power.

The angels rejoiced in the same message when they proclaimed to the shepherds that Christ’s birth was “good news of great joy for all people.”

Like Mary, may we be mindful of this extraordinary source of hope. May it sustain us when life brings unexpected or difficult things across our paths, and may it light the way forward.