Advent Lessons and Carols service
Join us for a contemplative and joyous service featuring:
- Prophetic readings
- Seasonal hymns and anthems
- Solos from Handel’s “Messiah”
- New Advent art on display
Lessons and Carols
Genesis 3:1-15 (Adam and Eve rebel against God and are cast out of the Garden of Eden)
Hymn 60 – Creator of the stars of night
Isaiah 40:1-11 (God comforts his people and calls on them to prepare for redemption)
Comfort ye my people – Georg Frideric Handel
Every valley shall be exalted
- Samuel Rodarte, tenor
Jeremiah 31:31-34 (A new covenant is promised which will be written on our hearts)
Song of Ezekiel – Monte Mason
Isaiah 6:1-11 (God reveals his glory to the prophet and calls him to be his messenger)
Hymn 69 – What is the crying at Jordan?
Isaiah 11:1-9 (The Spirit of the Lord will rest on the Holy One)
The Lord will come and not be slow – Henry G. Ley
Zephaniah 3:14-18 (The Lord will be among us; we are summoned to rejoice and sing)
Hymn 71 – Hark! the glad sound!
Luke 1:5-25 (An angel announces to Zechariah that his wife Elizabeth will bear a son)
Song of Zechariah – Richard Fabian