Advent 3 - Sunday Service December 10, 2023
Welcome to Advent and thank you for sharing your time with us at Calvary United Church! This week's theme is "We Allow Ourselves to Be Amazed". Thanks to the Sunday School for all of their hard work on this year's Christmas Pageant! Great job! This week’s worship liturgy is adapted from prayers written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org. Opening Intro Music "Angels We Have Heard on High" from https://www.freexmasmp3.com/ Processional: "Hope Is a Star" Words: Brian Wren Music: Joan Collier Fogg Call to Worship Advent Candle Lighting - Bellehumeur Family Light 2 Blue Candles, One Pink Candle Responsive Song: "Christ Be Our Light" (vs1) by Bernadette Farrell Call to Confession Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Grace Doxology: "Gloria" Words: Trad. Liturgical Setting Music: Jacques Berthier Reflection - "An Untraditional Christmas Pageant" Presented by Calvary's Sunday School Carols: "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Words: Latin Antiphons for Advent; Trans. John Mason Neale Music: 15th Century plainsong; Arr. Healey Willan "Still, Still, Still" Words: Austrian Carol Music: Austrian Melody "Angels We Have Heard on High" Words: French Traditional Music: French Carol Melody "We Three Kings" Words and Music: John H. Hopkins "Away in a Manger" Words: Author Unknown Music: William James Kirkpatrick "Go, Tell It on the Mountain" Words: John Wesley Work II Music: African-American Spiritual; Arr. United Reformed Church "Shine Upon Us" Words and Music: Bruce Harding "Joy to the World" Words: Isaac Watts Music: Attrib. George Frederick Handel Benediction Benediction Hymn: "Joy Shines as the Solitary Star" Words: Catherine Faith MacLean Music: Janet Bauman Tissandier Outro: Music: "Shining Stars” by Rafael Krux from freepd.com Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-606441. All rights reserved. Thank you to everyone who helped out with this week's service! https://www.calvaryunitedpa.ca/calvar... https://www.calvaryunitedpa.ca/donate... https://www.calvaryunitedpa.ca/
