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A Service for Advent with Carols, live from the Chapel of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge.

Introit: Rorate caeli (plainsong)
Processional Hymn: O come, O come Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel, descant David Hill)
Bidding Prayer
Carol: In the stillness (Sally Beamish)

I The Message of Advent
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adona茂 (plainsong)
Carol: People, look east (Tradition Bescan莽on, arr. Shaw)
First Lesson: Isaiah 11 vv. 1-5
Carol: A tender shoot (Kerensa Briggs)
Carol: There is no rose (Joubert)
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 vv. 1-11
Carol: Christ hath a garden (Eleanor Daley)

II The Word of God
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David (plainsong)
Third Lesson: Micah 4 vv. 1-4
Carol: A Hymn of St Columba (Britten)
Fourth Lesson: Luke 4 vv. 14-21
Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus, descant Christopher Robinson)

III The Prophetic Call
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium (plainsong)
Fifth Lesson: Malachi 3 vv1-7
Carol: This is the record of John (Gibbons)
Sixth Lesson: Matthew 3 vv1-11
Hymn: On Jordan鈥檚 bank the Baptist鈥檚 cry (Winchester New, descant Christopher Robinson)

IV The God-Bearer
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Emmanuel and O Virgo Virginum (plainsong)
Carol: Annunciation (The Angel and the girl are met) (Helena Paish)
Seventh Lesson: Luke 1 vv. 39-49
Magnificat: St John鈥檚 Service (Jonathan Dove)
Eighth Lesson: John 3 vv1-8
Anthem: The seven joys of Mary (Trad, arr. William Whitehead)

Sentence and Christmas Collect
Carol: What child is this? (Russell Pascoe) (first broadcast, commissioned by the Master and Fellows for the service)
Hymn: Hills of the north rejoice (Little Cornard)
The College Prayer and The Blessing
Organ Voluntary: In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 (Bach)

Christopher Gray (Director of Music)
Alexander Robson (Herbert Howells Organ Scholar)
The Revd Canon Dr Victoria Johnson (Dean)