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Order for Lighting Advent Candles: “Christmas: Good News”
“Celebrating Advent in the Congregational Service of Worship”
Advent: A Congregational Life / Intergenerational Experience
© 1997 1997 United Church Press. Used by permission.
Source: UCC Book of Worship, 1989
Joy to the World
Words: Isaac Watts, 1719.
Music: ’Antioch’ pieced together from “Messiah” George F. Handel, 1741.
Setting: Lowell Mason, 1836.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2005 Revision.
Credits for Poems
“A Moment of Nativity” – Virginia Kimball
“Joseph’s Song” – Michael Card
“I Was Just A Little Star” – Amy Lane
“A Song Was Heard At Christmas” – Timothy Dudley Smith
“The Shepherds – a narrative” – Pieter Stok
“We Wise-men Three” – Fr. Thomas Flynn, LC
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
Words: Phillips Brooks, 1867.
Music: ’St. Louis’ Lewis H. Redner, 1868.
Setting: “The Chapel Hymnal”, 1898.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2005 Revision.
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Words: Edmund H. Sears, 1849.
Music: ’Carol’ Richard S. Willis, 1861.
Setting: “Order of worship for the Reformed Church in the United States”, 1866.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2005 Revision.
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Words: Charles Wesley, 1739, alt.
Music: ’Mendelssohn’ from ’Festgesang’ Felix Mendelssohn, 1840.
Setting: William H. Cummings, 1857.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2005 Revision.
O Come, All Ye Faithful
Words: John F. Wade, circa 1743. v.1-3, 6 Translated by Frederick Oakeley, 1841; v. 4, 5 Translated by William T. Brooke (1848-1917).
Music: ’Adeste Fideles’ or ’Portuguese Hymn’ John F. Wade, 1743.
Setting: “A Hymnal” (Episcopal), 1916.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2007 Revision.
Away In A Manger
Words: stanzas 1,2 anonymous published Philadelphia, 1885. stanza 3 John T. MacFarland (1851-1913).
Music: ’Mueller’ James R. Murray, 1887.
Setting: “Hymnal for American Youth”, 1919.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2006 Revision.
The First Noel
Words: Traditional English carol, possibly dating from as early as the 13th Century.
Music: ’The First Noel’ Traditional English carol, possibly dating from as early as the 13th Century.
Setting: “The Methodist Sunday School Hymnal”, 1911.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2006 Revision.
Silent Night
Words: Josef Mohr, 1818. stanzas 1,3 Translated by John Freeman Young, 1863. stanzas 2,4 translator anonymous.
Music: ’Stille Nacht’ Franz Xaver Gruber, 1818.
Setting: “Concordia Kinderchöre”, 1908.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2005 Revision.
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