Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

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[caption id="attachment_308237" align="alignnone" width="1500"] The Nativity depicted in the South Stall Woodwork of Saint Thomas Church[/caption] Eternal God, who made this most holy night to shine with the brightness of thy one true light: bring us, who have known the revelation of that light on earth, to see the radiance of thy heavenly glory; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

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4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Baptismal Font

The Choir sings from the narthex at the start of a Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

Officiant	Fr. Turner
Sung by	The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys

Canonic Variations on ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her’, BWV 769	by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude	Weinachten, Op. 145, no. 3, by Max Reger (1873-1916)
Variations sur un Noël, Op. 20	by Marcel Dupre (1886-1971)
Pastorale über ‘Josef lieber, Josef mein’ und ‘Stille nacht’	by 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	by 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	by Anonymous (Polish carol), arr. Gerre Hancock (1934-2012)
94 – While shepherds watched their flocks by night – WINCHESTER OLD
Matthew 2:1-12
Epiphany	by Judith Bingham (b. 1952)
John 1:1-14
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day	by 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)