ADVENT 3 - December 14, 2014

• Organ:  Nun komm der heiden Heiland (Come now, Saviour of the Gentiles) – Jan Sweelinck 
• Opening Hymn: 88 “Come, thou long-expected Jesus”
• Service Music:  New Plainsong – David Hurd
• Trisagion - Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal one, have mercy on us.
• Psalm 126
• Gradual:

Cantor: Show thyself O Lord, thou that sittest upon the Cherubim:
Choir: stir up thy strength and come. 
Cantor: Hear O thou Shepherd of Israel;
Choir: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Cantor: Stir up thy strength O Lord,
Choir: and come and help us.

• Offertory Hymn  111 “Herald! sound the voice of judgement
• Anthem: ““This is the record of John” – Orlando Gibbons

The text is that of today’s gospel

• Communion Hymn 95 “O come, divine Messiah”
• Concluding Hymn 98 “Hark the glad sound!”
• Organ: “Sleepers, wake” – J.S. Bach

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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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