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This online, choral service has been collated from our extensive archive of live recordings together prayers and readings & collects for the appointed day especially recorded in church and in people's homes.

Responses: Orlando Gibbons
Psalm: 128
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Fauxbourdon service - Orlando Gibbons
Sermon in Music: i) Bethlehem Down - Peter Warlock; ii) There is no rose of such virtue - George Oldroyd
Organ Voluntary: Choral Prelude 'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen' - Johannes Brahms

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• Title: Choral Evensong with Sermon in Music: Christmas I

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• Processional Hymn
  It came upon the midnight clear

• Welcome, Confession & Absolution
  

• Preces
  Orlando Gibbons

• Psalm
  128

• Old Testament Lesson
  Isaiah 6: 1-8 (KJV)

• Magnificat
  Fauxbourdon service – Orlando Gibbons

• New Testament Lesson
  1 John 5: 1-12 (KJV)

• Nunc Dimittis
  Fauxbourdon service – Orlando Gibbons

• Apostles' Creed
  

• Responses & Collects
  

• Sermon in Music
  Bethlehem Down – Peter Warlock

• Sermon in Music
  There is no rose of such virtue – George Oldroyd

• Prayers of Intercession
  The Revd Dr Jeff Lake, Associate Priest

• Offertory Hymn
  A great and mighty wonder

• Blessing
  

• Organ Voluntary
  Choral Prelude 'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen' – Johannes Brahms