Year C: Music for Christmas Eve December 24, 2021

 

A Service of Music for Christmas Eve (10:30 p.m.)

Theme and Variations on Sussex Carol Philip M. Young (organ)
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day Berkley Guse (Festival Choir)

Angels We Have Heard on High Fred Gramann (St. Mark’s Ringers)

Good King Wenceslas (Assembly)
The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy arr. Alan Smith (FC)
Now the Heavens Start to Whisper Thomas Keesecker (FC)

In the Bleak Midwinter arr. Sandra Eithun (SMR)

All Praise to Thee Wesley D. Peters (FC)

 GATHERING HYMN O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) ELW 283

 

PSALM Psalm 96 – Sing to the Lord a New Song (Es ist ein’ Ros)

 

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Angels We Have Heard on High (Gloria) ELW 289

 

HYMN OF THE DAY O Little Town of Bethlehem (St. Louis) ELW 279

 

MUSICAL OFFERING A Virgin Most Pure Carl Halter (Festival Choir)

 

OFFERING HYMN When a Star Is Shining (Where the Promise Shines) ACS 915

 

COMMUNION HYMN In the Bleak Midwinter (Cranham)
I did not choose the version in ELW so that we could sing a verse that is missing there:
Angels and archangels may have gathered there,

cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;

but his mother only, in her maiden bliss,

worshipped the Beloved with a kiss.   Christina Rossetti, 1874-1934

 

CANDLELIGHT HYMN Silent Night (Still Nacht) ELW 281

 

SENDING HYMN Joy to the World (Antioch)

 

CLOSING VOLUNTARY Joy to the World Gordon Young