Worship for December 2009

Sunday 6th – Second Sunday of Advent

• 08.00 Said Mass.
• 10.00 Sung Mass.
  • Anthem: Comfort ye, my people and Every valley shall be exalted (“Messiah”). G F Handel
  • Voluntaries: Music for oboe
• 11.30 Children’s Mass.

Sunday 13th – Third Sunday of Advent

• 08.00 Said Mass.
• 10.00 Sung Mass.
  • Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord alway. John Redford
  • Voluntaries: Music for flute
  • ————– Music from the John Reading manuscripts in Dulwich Library
• 12.00 Baptisms.

Sunday 20th – Fourth Sunday of Advent

• 08.00 Said Mass.
• 10.00 Sung Mass.
  • Anthem: Ecce concipies. Jacob Handl
  • Voluntaries: Music for trumpet
  • ————– Presto from Sonata in C minor. Giovanni Battista Pescettti
• 11.30 Children’s Nativity Pageant.
• 18.00 Service of Readings and Carols.
  • Choir Carols: Every star shall sing a carol. Sydney Carter
  • ————– Balulalow (no.4b from “A Ceremony of Carols”). Benjamin Britten
  • ————– Hodie Christus natus est. J P Praenestinus
  • ————– Where’s the boy called Jesus? Dave Corbett
  • Voluntaries: Harp: Interlude (no.7 from “A Ceremony of Carols”). Benjamin Britten
  • ————– Organ: various seasonal preludes

Thursday 24th – Christmas Eve

• 16.00 Christingle Service.
• 23.00 Carols and Christmas Music.
• 23.30 Midnight Mass.
  • Choir carols: Infant holy, infant lowly. Polish carol, arr. David Willcocks
  • ————– Rocking. trad. Czech carol
  • Voluntaries: Allein Gott in der Hoh’ sei Her. settings by G P Telemann, F W Zachau and J G Walther
  • ————– Toccata No.32. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Friday 25th – Christmas Day

• 10.00 Sung Mass.
  • Anthem: Away in a manger. W J Kirkpatrick
  • Voluntaries: In Dulci Jubilo. F W Zachau
  • ————– Nun danket alle Gott. G F Kauffmann

Sunday 27th – St. John, Apostle and Evangelist

• 08.00 Said Mass.
• 10.00 Sung Mass.
  • Voluntaries: Music for piano and for ’cello