Seeing Glory
A Sermon for Christmas 2 Ecclesiasticus 24.1-13 ; John 1.1-18 Some words from our Gospel reading this morning: “we have seen his glory”. Let me begin by wishing you all a very happy new year, and (because today is still the 12 th day of Christmas) a very happy Christmas. Tonight all the decorations should be stowed away for another year, trees come down, fairy lights are boxed up and lots of us will be making trips to attics and lofts with boxes of stuff. And in the midst of this we hear again the Gospel read at the heart of our Christmas celebrations, with this line that “we have seen his glory”. Glory is not something that we should put away with the decorations, but there is a real danger that we miss the glory for the trappings of Christmas. There is a Christian tradition, which we will observe here at the Cathedral, that crib sets do not get put away on twelfth night, but that they remain out until the end of the greater C...