Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource “Prayer ventures,” which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.
Thursday, Dec. 25 Christmas Day Oscar Romero, the martyred Roman Catholic bishop of San Salvador, wrote, “The more simple and humble, the more poor and detached from ourselves, the more full of troubles and problems we are, the more bewildering life’s ways, all the more must we look up to the skies and hear the great news: ‘A Savior is born to you.’ And let us listen in chorus to that great news, sung throughout the universe: ‘Glory to God in the heavens, and on earth peace to those whom God loves.’” Give praise and thanksgiving to God!