South
Leicester Christian Partnership
Advent
Evening Service at St Guthlac, Knighton,
Holbrook
Road
Sunday
2 December 2012, 6.30 pm
Where have all the Advent Hymns Gone?
A
service of hymns, prayer and meditation with assistance from the
Choirs
of St Guthlac, St Mary Magdalen and friends
OCOFOL
is our One Church, One Faith, One Lord Hymn
Book
Introduction
and Prayer
O come, O come Emmanuel.
The Great O Antiphons, 12-13 century (O&N 480; OCOFOL 469). Verse one solo: Gwion Thomas
Prayer
Choir: Creator of the starry height.
Plainchant, 7th century. (O&N 135 vs 1, 2, 3, 5. OCOFOL 124).
Prayer
Come thou long expected Jesus.
Wesley (O&N 128; OCOFOL 117).
Prayer
Choir:
In the Lord I’ll be ever thankful. Taizé. (O&N 929; OCOFOL 766)
Prayer
The
Lord will come and not be slow. Milton (O&N
655).
The Lord will come and not be slow;
His footsteps cannot err;
Before Him righteousness shall go,
His royal harbinger.
Truth from the earth, like to a flower,
Shall bud and blossom free,
And justice, from her heavenly bower,
Bless all humanity.
The nations all whom Thou hast made
Shall come, and all shall frame
To bow them low before Thee, Lord!
And glorify Thy Name!
For great thou art, and wonders great
by thy strong hand are done:
thou in thy everlasting seat
remainest God alone.
Prayer
Wake O Wake with tidings
thrilling. Nicolai arr. Bach (O&N 703; OCOFOL 690, vs 1 and 2)
Prayer
Hark a herald voice is calling.
6th century. (O&N 263, OCOFOL
247).
Prayer
People look East.
Besançon carol. (O&N 557, omit v 3)
People,
look East. The time is near
Of the crowning of
the year.
Make your house fair
as you are able,
Trim the hearth, and
set the table.
People, look East,
and sing today,
Love the guest is on the way.
Furrows,
be glad. Though the earth is bare,
One more seed is planted
there;
Give up your strength
the seed to nourish,
That in course the
flow’r may flourish.
People, look East,
and sing today,
Love the rose is on the way.
Stars,
keep the watch. When night is dim
One more light the
bowl shall brim,
Shining beyond the
frosty weather,
Bright as sun and
moon together.
People, look East,
and sing today;
Love the star is on the way.
Angels,
announce to man and beast
Him who cometh from
the east.
Set ev’ry peak and
valley humming
With the word, the
Lord is coming.
People look East, and
sing today;
Love the Lord is on the way.
Prayer
The God of Abraham praise.
Based on the Hebrew Yigdal. (O&N 642. OCOFOL
627).
Prayer
Hills
of the North, rejoice. (O&N 282, OCOFOL 270)
Prayer
Lo, he comes with clouds
descending. Wesley (O&N 405. OCOFOL 399).
Concluding
Prayer
Our thanks to Andrew Painter for
playing the organ for us tonight.
