Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols | Saturday 24 December 2022 | Chester Cathedral |

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from Chester Cathedral with the Cathedral Choir and Clergy, with the Rt Revd Mark Tanner, Bishop of Chester Saturday 24 December 2022, Christmas Eve, 3.00 pm Please consider giving to support the work of this Cathedral. You can do so at: https://chestercathedral.com/donate The service sheet is available here:  https://chestercathedral.com/worship-... Director of Music: Philip Rushforth Acting Assistant Director of Music: Alexander Lanigan-Palotai Congregational carols: Once in Royal David's City God rest you merry, gentlemen While shepherds watched their flocks by night Hark! the herald angels sing Choir Carols: Ding! dong! Merrily on high - arranged Stuart Nicholson (born 1975) Adam lay ybounden - Peter Warlock (1894-1930) Resonet in laudibus - Jacobus Handl (1550-91) I wonder as I wander - arranged Nicholas Temperley (1932-2020) In dulci Jubilo - Bob Chilcott (b. 1955) There is no rose - Kathryn Rose (b. 1980) In the stillness - Sally Beamish (born 1956) The holly and the ivy - Matthew Owens (b. 1971) Gifts for the Child of Winter - Bob Chilcott (born 1955) I saw three ships - Simon Preston (1938-2022) Away in a manger In the bleak midwinter - Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977) Readings: Genesis 3: 8 - 15 Genesis 22: 15 - 18 Isaiah 9: 2, 6 - 7 Isaiah 11: 1 – 4, 6 – 9 Luke 1: 26 - 35, 38 Luke 2: 1 - 7 Luke 2: 8 - 16 Matthew 2: 1 - 12 John 1: 1 - 14 Voluntary: Final (Symphonie I): Louis Vierne (1870-1937)