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 The Holiday Season is Upon Us
December 2007
Parish will come together, as a community, for our Advent Lessons and Carols service at 8 p.m., Dec. 16, at The Church of the Transfiguration.
The service is built around eight lessons from the Old and New Testaments that speak directly to God’s acts of salvation. The lessons remind us about creation, the fall of humanity, the promise of the Messiah and the birth of Jesus.
Each carol, either sung as an anthem by the choir or by the whole congregation, is an echoing response to God’s generosity. Our choir will move about the sanctuary, singing to us, over us, around us, as the spirit of God moves through the world. This service is the choir’s premiere program and truly highlights its ministry of leadership in our worshipping community.
Our readers are symbolic members of the Upper School community who, in their leadership, embody the search for truth and sacredness in our lives.
Advent Lessons and Carols is a form of Christian worship deeply rooted in the Anglican tradition. Developed in 1918 at the chapel at Kings College, Cambridge, in response to the “flatness of worship,” the service is designed to instruct and delight those who attend.
The Kings College “Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” has been broadcast on the radio on Christmas Eve since 1928. Churches and schools around the world offer Lessons and Carols as both an occasion of reverence and joy.
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