OSLC Thunder Bay | December 25, 2025 | Nativity of Our Lord Christmas Day

Welcome to our recording of Holy Communion for Christmas Day, December 25, 2025. For Sunday services. on Saturdays, the worship outline (including links to videos of the music) and text of the sermon are posted at https://www.oursaviourstbay.org/ worship-outline-and-sermon . Note: at the bottom of the video there is a 'CC' button. Pushing this activates the automatic captions. While the rendering isn't perfect, the words appear at the bottom of the screen when someone is speaking. Presiding Minister: Pastor Matthew Diegel Music: Darlene Taylor Reader: Brian Phillips A/V: Brian Phillips Hymns from 'Evangelical Lutheran Worship: copyrighted texts and music used with permission under Reprint/Podcast OneLicense.net # A-714392. All rights reserved. -Away in a Manger (# 278). Text: North American, 19th cent., public domain.. Music: William J. Kirkpatrick; arr. David Willcocks. © 1960, Oxford University Press. -Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (# 276). Text: Polish carol; tr. Edith M. G. Reed, alt. Music: Polish carol. Text and music: public domain. -Good Christian Friends, Rejoice (# 288). Text: Medieval Latin carol; tr. John Mason Neale. Music: German carol, 14th cent.; arr. Robert L. Pearsall. Text and music: public domain.) -It Came upon the Midnight Clear (# 282, st. 1,4). Text: Edmund H. Sears. Music: Richard S. Willis. Text and music: public domain. -Your Little Ones, Dear Lord (# 286). Text: Hans A. Brorson; tr. Harriet Krauth Spaeth, alt. Music: Johann A. P. Schultz. Text and music: public domain. -Go Tell It on the Mountain (# 290). Text: African American spiritual, refrain; John W. Work Jr., stanzas, alt. Music: African American spiritual. Text and music: public domain.