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Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols
Sunday 22nd December 2024
ORDER OF SERVICE
Carol: Once in Royal David’s City
The Bidding Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Carol: It came upon the midnight clear
1 st Lesson: Genesis 3.
Choir: Adam lay y’bounden - Philip Ledger (1937 - 2012)
Choir: Jesus Christ the apple tree - Elizabeth Poston (1905 – 1987)
2 nd Lesson: Genesis 22.
Carol: See amid the winter’s snow
3 rd Lesson: Isaiah 9.
Choir: Benedicamus Domino - Peter Warlock (1894 – 1930)
Carol: O Little Town of Bethlehem
4 th Lesson: Isaiah 11.
Carol: Gabriel’s Message
Choir: Riu, riu chiu - Mateo Flecha the elder (1481 – 1553)
5 th Lesson: St. Luke 1
Choir: Bogoroditsye devo - Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 – 1943)
6 th Lesson: St. Luke 2
Choir: Nativity Carol - John Rutter (b. 1945)
Carol: Away in a manger
Choir: Blessed be that maid Mary - Anthony Dowlen (b. 1948)
7 th Lesson: St. Luke 2
Carol: While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Choir: The three kings - Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874), Chorale J.S.Bach (1685 – 1750)
8 th Lesson: St. Matthew 2
Carol: As with gladness
Choir: In the bleak mid-winter - Harold Darke (1888 - 1976)
9 th Lesson: St. John 1
Carol. O Come All Ye Faithful
Collect and Blessing
Carol. Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Organ Voluntary. In dulci jubilo (BWV729) - J. S. Bach (1685 – 1750)