5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. | Baptismal Font
This service is specifically designed for children and young families. The choristers will sing carols, accompanied by harp, and the readings and prayers will be read by members of our Sunday School using a children’s’ version of the Christmas story. During the service, the figures that make up the Christmas Creche will be brought forward and put in their various places. The Rector will tell the children a traditional story and all children will receive a small gift. There will be a special order of service that the children can take home. Children are welcome to come to this service dressed as one of the characters in the Christmas story – Mary, Joseph, angels, shepherds, Magi (three wise men or kings), ‘Star’, inn-keeper, or one of the animals traditionally associated with the Christmas creche – ox, ass, lamb, donkey.
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| Officiant | Mo. Turner |
| Sung by | The Choristers of the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys |
| Prelude on ‘Greensleeves’ | Richard Purvis (1913-1994) |
| Prelude | ‘Walking in the air’, from ‘The Snowman’, by Howard Blake (b. 1938) arranged by Robert Gower |
| 102 – Once in royal David’s city – IRBY | |
| Reading | No room at the Inn |
| Carol | C’est la Noël, by Gaston Litaize (1909-1991) |
| Reading | Mary and Joseph |
| There is no rose of such virtue | Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) |
| Reading | Angels and Shepherds |
| Carol | ‘It Was On a Starry Night’, Joy Webb (b. 1932) |
| 94 – While shepherds watched their flocks by night – WINCHESTER OLD | |
| Reading | A Star and Visitors from the East |
| 128 – We three kings of Orient are – THREE KINGS OF ORIENT | |
| 101 – Away in a manger, no crib for his bed – CRADLE SONG | Anonymous/Traditional carol |
| Voluntary | In dulci jubilo, by Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) |
