Christmas Eve, 10pm - Saturday, December 24, 2016

Service Music: Missa Brevis No. 4 in E Major (Based on the Christmas Sequence: Corde Natus
Ex Parentis) – Healey Willan (1880-1968)

• Organ: A la Venue de Noël – Pierre Dandrieu (1664-1733)
• Opening Carol: 118 O Come, All Ye Faithful
• Kyrie (sung by the choir) – Healey Willan

Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison, Christe eleison, Christe eleison.
Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison

• Gloria: Hymn 365 (Darwall)

Glory to God on high, and peace to all on earth. We worship you, we give you thanks, our heavenly King. We give you praise, almighty God and Father blessed in glory bright. Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Father’s only Son, the sacrificial Lamb, who saves the world from sin, have mercy Lord. Beside the Father’s hand entrhroned, now hear our prayer. You only are the Lord. You only are most high. You only are the holy one, Lord Jesus Christ. And now you reign with Father and with Spirit one in glorious light.

• Psalm 96 (Anglican Chant)
• Carol: 139 The First Nowell (vv. 1-4)
• Gradual Carol: 119 Silent Night
• Offertory Carol: 140 It Came upon the Midnight Clear
• Anthem: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence – Old French melody arr. Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing earthly minded, for with blessing in his hand,
Christ our Lord to earth descendeth our full homage to demand.

King of Kings, yet born of Mary, as of old on earth He stood,
Lord of Lords, in human vesture in the Body and the Blood
He will give to all the faithful His own Self for heavenly food.

Rank on rank the host of heaven spreads its vanguard on the way
As the light descendeth from the realms of endless day
That the pow’rs of hell may vanish as the darkness clears away.

At His feet the six-winged seraph; Cherubim with sleepless eye,
Veil their faces to the Presence, as with ceaseless voice they cry,
Alleluya, Alleluya, Alleluya Lord most High. Amen.

-Words translated from the Greek by G. Moultrie

• Sanctus & Benedictus (sung by the choir) – Healey Willan

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts,
Heaven and earth are full of thy glory:
Glory be to thee, O Lord, Most high.
Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.

• Agnus Dei (sung by the choir) – Healey Willan

O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace.

• Communion Carols: 137 What Child Is This; 121 O Little Town of Bethlehem
• Communion Motet: “Ah! dearest Jesus, Holy Child” (from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248) – J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

And this is the sign to you:
Ye shall find the Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes,
and lying in a manger.
Ah! dearest Jesus, Holy Child,
Make Thee a bed, soft, undefil’d,
Within my heart, and there recline,
And keep that chamber ever Thine.

• Concluding Carol: 138 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• Organ: Toccata in D Minor – Alphonse Mailly (1833-1918)

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