Year C Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent: December 19, 2021

 

opening voluntary

Two Settings of “O Little Town of Bethlehem” 

(Forest Green and St. Louis)

Eric Olson, oboe                                                         

arr. Anne Krentz Organ, Christina Shehi

 

gathering HYMN                                                                                              ELW 242

Awake! Awake, and Greet the New Morn                       rejoice, rejoice     

Text: Marty Haugen, b. 1950; Music: Marty Haugen

 

HYMN OF THE DAY

Unexpected and Mysterious                                                   jefferson         

Text: Jeannette M. Lindholm, b. 1961; Music: W. Walker, Southern Harmony, 1835

 

MUSICAL OFFERING The White Dove         Johannes Brahms, arr. Mark Schweizer

 

communion hymn                                                                                          ELW 266
All Earth Is Hopeful                          toda la tierra                                                                                                   

Text: Alberto Taulé, b. 1932, tr. Madeline Forell Marshall, b. 1946
Music: Alberto Taulé, b. 1932

 

SENding Hymn                                                                          ELW 723

Canticle of the Turning                                   star of the county down

Text: Rory Cooney, b. 1952, based on the Magnificat; Music: Irish traditional