December 15, 2024
3rd Sunday of Advent
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Prelude: Come O Long Expected Jesus (Gather 345)
Come, O long expected Jesus,
Born to set your people free;
From our fears and sins release us;
Free us from captivity.
Israel’s strength and consolation,
You, the hope of all the earth,
Dear desire of ev’ry nation,
Come, and save us by your birth.
Born your people to deliver,
Born a child and yet a king!
Born to reign in us forever,
Now your gracious kingdom bring.
By your own eternal Spirit
Rule in all our hearts alone’
By you all sufficient merit
Raise us to your glorious throne.
Text: Haggai 2:7; Charles Wesley, 1707-1788, alt. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Entrance Hymn: O Come, Divine Messiah (Gather 333)
O come, Divine Messiah,
The world in silence waits the day
When hope shall sing its triumph,
And sadness flee away.
Dear Savior, haste!
Come, come to earth.
Dispel the night and show your face,
And bid us hail the dawn of grace.
O come, Divine Messiah,
The world in silence waits the day
When hope shall sing its triumph,
And sadness flee away.
O come Desired of nations,
Whom priest and prophet long foretold,
Will break the captive fetters,
Redeem the long-lost fold.
O come in peace and meekness,
For lowly will your cradle be:
Though clothed in human weakness
We shall your Godhead see.
Text: Venez, divin Messie; Abbé Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, 1663-1745; tr. by S. Mary of St. Philip, 1877 Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Scripture Readings (external link): 3rd Sunday of Advent
Responsorial: Isaiah 12 (Gather 81)
R: Cry out with joy and gladness, for the Lord is in your midst,
the holy one of Israel, cry out with joy.
or
Cry out with joy and gladness, for among you is the great and Holy One of Israel.
Preparation Hymn: The King Shall Come (Gather 347)
The King shall come when morning dawns
And light triumphant breaks.
When beauty gilds the eastern hills
And life to joy awakes.
Not, as of old, a little child,
To suffer and to die,
But crowned with glory like the sun
That lights the morning sky.
The King shall come when morning dawns
And earth’s dark night is past;
O haste the rising of that morn
Whose day shall ever last.
And let the endless bliss begin,
By weary saints foretold,
When right shall triumph over wrong,
And truth shall be extolled.
The King shall come when morning dawns
And light and beauty brings.
Hail, Christ, the Lord! Your people pray:
Come quickly, King of kings.
Text: John Brownlie, 1857-1925 Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Communion Hymn: Wait for the Lord (Gather 340)
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Concluding Hymn: People, Look East (Gather 337)
People, look East. The time is near
Of the crowning of the year
Make your house fair as you are able.
Trim the hearth and set the table.
People look East and sing today:
Love the Guest is on the way.
Furrows, be glad. Though earth is bare.
One more seed is planted there:
Give up your strength the seed to nourish,
That in course the flow’r may flourish.
People look East and sing today:
Love the Rose is on the way.
Birds, though you long have ceased to build,
Guard the nest that must be filled.
Even the hour when wings are frozen
He for fledging time has chosen.
People look East and sing today:
Love the Bird is on the way.
Stars, keep watch. When night is dim
One more light the bowl shall brim,
Shining beyond the frosty weather,
Bright as sun and moon together.
People look East and sing today:
Love the Star is on the way.
Angels announce with shouts of mirth
Him who brings new life to earth.
Set ev’ry peak and valley humming
With the word, the Lord is coming.
People look East and sing today:
Love the Lord is on the way.
Text: Eleanor Farjeon, 1881-1965, © David Higham Assoc. Ltd. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Alternate Hymn: When the King Shall Come Again (Gather 327)
When the King shall come again
All his pow’r revealing,
Splendor shall announce his reign,
Life and joy and healing;
Earth no longer in decay,
Hope no more frustrated;
This is God’s redemption day
Longingly awaited.
In the desert trees take root
Fresh from his creation;
Plants and flow’rs and sweetest fruit
Join the celebration;
Rivers spring up from the earth,
Barren lands adorning;
Valleys, this is your new birth,
Mountains, greet the morning!
Strengthen feeble hands and knees,
Fainting hearts, be cheerful!
God who comes for such as these
Seeks and saves the fearful;
Now the deaf can hear the dumb
Sing away their weeping;
Blind eyes see the injured come
Walking, running, leaping.
There God’s highway shall be seen
Where no roaring lion,
Nothing evil or unclean
Walks the road to Zion:
Ransomed people homeward bound
All your praises voicing,
See your Lord with glory crowned,
Share in his rejoicing!
Text: Isaiah 35; Christopher Idle, b.1938, © 1982, Jubilate Hymns, Ltd. (Administered by Hope Publishing Co.) Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.