ADVENT PROCESSION

Sunday, 29 November 2020 | Exeter College Chapel, Oxford

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Thank you for joining us for this service of music, silence, and lessons welcoming the season of Advent and a new liturgical year. The order of service can be found here.

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0:00  Voluntary: Rorate caeli  Jeanne Demessieux

2:04  Rorate caeli 'The Advent Prose'

8:02  Hymn: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel  arr. Willcocks

12:45  The Bidding Prayer

14:11  Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229  Johann Sebastian Bach
 

23:25  Lesson: Psalm 19, read in Old English
 

26:35  Hymn: Creator of the Stars of Night  Plainchant
 

30:41  Lamentations 3, read in Slovenian
 

31:57  Hymn: Ave maris stella  Guillaume DuFay
 

37:26  Lesson: Isaiah 11
 

38:50  The Lamb  John Tavener
 

42:55  Lesson: Haggai 2. 6–9, read in Biblical Hebrew
 

43:43  Hymn: Of the Father's Love Begotten  arr. Willcocks
 

48:39  Lesson: Isaiah 40
 

50:30  And I Saw a New Heaven  Edgar Bainton
 

56:17  Lesson: Mark 1. 1–9
 

57:26  Hymn: On Jordan's Bank  descant by John Scott
 

1:01:00  Lesson: Luke 1.26–45, read in Koine Greek
 

1:03:55  Ave Maria  Robert Nathaniel Dett
 

1:08:39  Lesson: Revelation 22
 

1:10:19  Hymn: Wake, o wake! with Tidings Thrilling  arr. J.S. Bach
 

1:16:21  The Prayers
 

1:18:00  Hymn: Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending  descant by Christopher Holman
 

1:23:40  The Blessing
 

1:24:11  Hymn to the Virgin  Benjamin Britten
 

1:27:55  The Silence
 

1:28:35  Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in c, BWV 549  J.S. Bach

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In this service:

Officiant

The Rev'd Andrew Allen, assisted by The Rev'd Canon Dr Margaret Whipp
 

Readers

Dr Francis Leneghan, Marco Bodnar, Grace Burney, Laurence McKellar, Prof Marguerite Dupree, Prof Karin Sigloch

Exeter College Chapel Choir
Christopher Holman, Conductor
Miles Swinden and Christopher Holman, Organ
 

Soloists

The Advent Prose: Chris Scholtens, Adam Rebick, Ashlynn Chan, Leo Charlier, Belle Allan

Dett Ave Maria: Leo Charlier

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