Touchstone commentary: Ancient of Days
December 27, 2006

Every Sunday our pastor proceeds up the aisle behind a troop of altar boys and lectors, one of the boys holding up a five foot cross and another holding up the lectionary from which we will hear the word of God. Not on Christmas, though. On that day, the pastor himself raises up something for the people to behold: from beneath the folds of his outer vestment he presents to the congregation a small statue of the Christ child. When he reaches the foot of the apse he places the child in a creche and kneels, while the people all sing that old carol that calls us to come to Bethlehem and adore the king of angels. the rest photo