Here’s something to get you thinking about music this morning…

(“Gabriel’s Message” sung by the Good Shepherd Band)

Here is the music for December 22, 2024 in case people want to familiarize themselves with it.

Opening Hymn: “O Come All Ye Faithful” (Hymn 83)

Lesson Hymns

“Child of the Poor” (Scott Soper)

“Of the Father’s Love Begotten” (Hymn 82)

“The Holly and the Ivy” (Traditional Carol)

“Ready the Way” (Curtis Stephan)

“Your Light Will Come Jerusalem” (Bob Hurd)

“Lo How A Rose E’re Blooming” (Hymn 81)

“Once in Royal David’s City” (Hymn 102)

“O Little Town of Bethlehem” (Hymn 79)

Gradual Hymn: “Angels We Have Heard on High” (Hymn 96)

Communion Hymn: “Silent Night” (Hymn 111)

Closing Hymn: “Joy to the World” (Hymn 100)

This is the song whose chorus I (Jen) was singing to myself in the dark of my room at Trinity Lutheran Seminary when I couldn’t sleep on the night of September 11, 2001. It had been sung a lot at my Episcopal parish in California, and it was a source of comfort. We are singing the words as our canticle this morning, so here it is to help get you in the mood for worship.

(“Surely It Is God Who Saves Me” by Jack Noble White, sung by the choir of St. David’s Episcopal Church)

Here is the music for December 15, 2024 in case people want to familiarize themselves with it.

Opening Hymn: “All Earth Is Hopeful/Toda la Tierra” (Albert Taule)

Gradual Hymn: “Rejoice in the Lord Always” (Canon)

Communion Hymn: “There’s a Voice in the Wilderness Crying” (Hymn 75)

Closing Hymn: “On Jordan’s Bank” (Hymn 76)