A Service of Christmas Lessons and Carols

Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Ember Day
12:00 p.m. | High Altar

Saint Mary the Virgin with the Christ Child in the stained glass windows of Saint Thomas Church

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

Prelude	Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her, by Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Hymn	Pastorale, by César Franck (1822-1890)
Lesson	105 – God rest you merry, gentlemen – GOD REST YOU MERRY — Anonymous (London carol, eighteenth century)
Carol	The snow lay on the ground, by Julian James Wachner (b. 1969)
Hymn	105 – God rest you merry, gentlemen – GOD REST YOU MERRY — Anonymous (London carol, eighteenth century)
Lesson 2	This is the truth sent from above, by Christopher Robinson (b. 1955)
Carol	98 – Unto us a boy is born – PUER NOBIS NASCITUR
Lesson 3	Luke 1:26-35, 38
Carol	Hymn to the Virgin, by Robert Spearing (b. 1950)
Hymn	93 – Angels, from the realms of glory – REGENT SQUARE
Lesson 4	Luke 2:1, 3-20
Carol	In the bleak midwinter , by Francis Pott (b.1957)
Lesson 5	John 1:1-14
Carol	What Tidings?, by Alun Hoddinott (b. 1929)text by John Audelay
Hymn	112 – In the bleak midwinter – CRANHAM
Voluntary	Sortie on ‘In dulci jubilo’, by David Briggs (b. 1962)

Resources

Leaflet

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