Advent 2 - Sunday 9 December 2012

• Organ Prelude: “Lo, how a rose e’er blooming” – Johannes Brahms 
• Opening Hymn 88 “Come, thou long-expected Jesus” 
• Psalm 
• Gospel Acclamation
  

  Choir: Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia
  All: Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia
  Cantor: Behold, our Lord will come with power: and will enlighten the eyes of his servants.
  All: Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

• Offertory Hymn 106 “There’s a voice in the wilderness” 
• During Communion: The Advent Prose 
• Communion Motet: Lo, how a rose – Michael Praetorius

  The text of this motet can be found, in a slightly different translation, at Hymn 117. 

• Final Hymn 103 “On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry” 
• Organ Postlude: “Deck thyself, my soul with gladness” – Johannes Brahms