Advent 2 - December 7, 2014

• Organ:  Nun komm der heiden Heiland (Come now, Saviour of the Gentiles) – Johann Pachelbel 
• Opening Hymn: 103 “On Jordan’s bank, the Baptist’s cry”
• Service Music:  New Plainsong – David Hurd 
• Trisagion - Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal one, have mercy on us.
• Psalm 85: 1-2, 12-13
• Gradual:

Cantor: Out of Zion hath God appeared
Choir: in perfect beauty. 
Cantor: Gather my saints together unto me
Choir: those that have made a covenant with me with sacrifice.
Cantor: I was glad when they said unto me
Choir: we will go into the house of the Lord

• Offertory Hymn 106 “There’s a voice in the wilderness crying”
• Anthem: “How beautiful upon the mountains” – Sir John Stainer

How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace; that publisheth salvation;
that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

• Communion Hymn 45 “Down Galilee’s slow roadways”
• Concluding Hymn 116 “Your kingdom come”
• Organ: “Sleepers, wake” – Siegfried Karg-Elert

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• Music Notes 
  Each week during Advent the organ prelude is based on the same German chorale, or hymn tune – Nun komm der heiden Heiland – by four different composers of the baroque era. Two names will be familiar to you – Bach and Pachelbel (of the famous Pachelbel’s Canon); and two less familiar – Sweelinck and Zachow. Today it’s the turn of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) and one of his most beautiful chorale preludes. Here is a translation of the first verse of the hymn by Martin Luther:
  

  Now come, Saviour of the gentiles,
  recognised as the child of the Virgin,
  so that all the world is amazed
  God ordained such a birth for him.

  Likewise, on the first three Advent Sundays the organ postlude is based on the tune of “Sleepers, wake” – the first by a Romantic era composer, Siegfried Karg-Elert; the second by a 20th century German, Herbert Collum; the last, and most well-known, by J.S. Bach.

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