Sunday, December 22, 2019
The Fourth Sunday Of Advent
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Fourth Sunday Of Advent
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Choir sings from the narthex at the start of a Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols
| Officiant | The Rector |
| Sung by | The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys |
| Canonic Variations on ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her’, BWV 769 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
| Prelude | Weinachten, Op. 145, no. 3, by Max Reger (1873-1916) |
| Variations sur un Noël, Op. 20 | Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) |
| Pastorale über ‘Josef lieber, Josef mein’ und ‘Stille nacht’ | Carl Sattler (c. 1874-1938) |
| 102 – Once in royal David’s city – IRBY | |
| Carol | C’est la Noël, by Gaston Litaize (1909-1991) |
| Lesson 1 | Genesis 3:8-15 |
| This is the truth sent from above | Christopher Robinson (b. 1955) |
| Lesson 2 | Genesis 22:15-18 |
| Hymn | Of the Father’s heart begotten -- DIVINUM MYSTERIUM |
| Lesson 3 | Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 |
| Carol | King Jesus hath a garden Dutch Melody, arranged by John Scott (1956-2015) |
| Lesson 4 | Isaiah 11:1-9 |
| There is no rose | |
| Luke 1:26-38 | |
| Carol | What Songs were Sung, by John Jacob Niles (1892-1980) arranged by Nathaniel Adams (b. 1986) |
| Lesson 6 | Luke 2:1-7 |
| 78 – O little town of Bethlehem – FOREST GREEN | |
| Lesson 7 | Luke 2:8-16 |
| Infant holy, infant lowly | Anonymous/Polish carol, arr. Gerre Hancock (1934-2012) |
| 94 – While shepherds watched their flocks by night – WINCHESTER OLD | |
| Matthew 2:1-12 | |
| Epiphany | Judith Bingham (b. 1952) |
| John 1:1-14 | |
| Tomorrow shall be my dancing day | Jeremy Filsell (b. 1964) |
| 83 – O come, all ye faithful – ADESTE FIDELES | |
| 87 – Hark! the herald angels sing – MENDELSSOHN | |
| Voluntary | ‘Dieu parmi nous’, from ‘La Nativité du Seigneur’, by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) |
