Morning Prayer with Carols - December 28th, 2025 (The First Sunday in Christmastide)

Full service of morning prayer and carols for the First Sunday in Christmastide, December 28th, 2025. Marsha Mackey officiated. Yanna Huls read the lessons. Before the weekly celebration of the Eucharist became normative in the latter part of the last century, Morning Prayer with hymns was commonplace on Sunday mornings. even when clergy were present to preside. We combine this with the rich tradition of holiday Lessons and Carols, most famously the service broadcast live every Christmas Eve from King's College Chapel at Cambridge University. Our slides today feature photos of Christmastime in France by JoAnn Riccardi. Others sourced from Flickr.com under Creative Commons license. Details in closing credits. Music accompanied by Rob Keiser included: “Away in a Manger” MUELLER (public domain) TEXT: Attr. Martin Luther TUNE: James R. Murray (1887) “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing” MELDELSSOHN (public domain) TEXT: Charles Wesley (1739) TUNE: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1840) “Angels We Have Heard on High” GLORIA TEXT & TUNE: 18th century French carol (public domain) “Good Christian Friends, Rejoice” IN DULCI JUBILO TEXT: John Mason Neale (1853) TUNE: German melody, 14th cent.; Klug'sGeistliche Lieder, Wittenberg, 1535 “The First Nowell” (public domain) TEXT: Anonymous (1833) TUNE: Traditional English Carol The Doxology (OLD HUNDREDTH) (public domain) TUNE: attributed to Louis Bourgeois (1551) “Go, Tell it on the Mountain” GO TELL IT (public domain) TEXT: John W. Work TUNE: African-American Spiritual, authorship unknown “Joy to the World” ANTIOCH (public domain) TEXT: Isaac Watts (1719) TUNE: George Frideric Handel, Adapted by Lowell Mason