This Sunday's Service
The Sunday before Christmas
is a time of heightened expectation. We light the final candle on the Advent
Wreath and settle down to wait for the Christ child. Why do we put so much
emphasis on Christmas, commercial as well as religious? What is the significance
of the rituals we go through each year? What inner need does Christmas satisfy
for each one of us? The answers to those questions are probably as numerous as
the stars in the sky on a mid winter night, but they bear consideration. The
sermon title is "Why Christmas?" and the scripture reading is Luke 1:39-55.
Decibells will play
Love came down at Christmas (with Of eternal love begotten), a
traditional Irish melody and a 13th century plainchant, arranged by Cynthia
Dobrinski, and Pat-a-Pan, a Burgundian carol, arranged by Jeffrey A.
Hall. Melissa Fritsche and Laura Howey, sopranos, will sing Laudamus te
from Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria. The Meeting House Choir will sing
The angel Gabriel from heaven came, a Basque carol, arranged by Anthony
Prower. Organist Gavin D. Craig will play Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV
599, by J. S. Bach. Our congregational hymns will be O Christ, how
shall I meet you (ST. THEODULPH)
and many others during the Moravian Love Feast.
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