Saturday, 24 December 2011
| Introit | O Emmanuel (chant) |
| Opening Hymn | O Come, O Come Emmanuel |
| Reading | Isaiah 11:1-10 (A shoot springs from the stock of Jesse) |
| Choir | Angels we have heard on high (trad. arr Eric Paździora) |
| Hymn | It came upon the midnight clear |
| Reading | Luke 1:26-38 (The Annunciation) |
| Hymn | In the bleak midwinter (Holst) |
| Reading | John 1: 1-18 (In the Beginning was the Word) |
| Choir | Coventry Carol (trad., arr Martin Shaw) |
| Bishop’s entrance and procession to the crib | Adeste Fideles |
| Gloria | Gloria de Noël (Thomas Niel) |
| Reading | Isaiah 9:2-7 (The people that walked in darkness) |
| Psalm | Christmas Psalm (Bernadette Farrell) |
| Reading | Titus 2:11-14 (God’s grace has been revealed) |
| Gospel Acclamation | St Agatha Alleluia (mcb) |
| Reading | Luke 2:1-14 (The Nativity) |
| Preparation of the gifts | What sweeter music (John Rutter) |
| Sanctus, Acclamation | Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd) |
| Agnus Dei | Lamb of God II (mcb) |
| Communion | O Magnum Mysterium (T.L. de Victoria, 1548-1611) Silent night |
| Postcommunion | While shepherds watched their flocks |
| Recessional | Hark the herald angels sing |
A bigger congregation than usual joined us for Midnight Mass; perhaps it was the mild weather, or an end at last to the Chapel Street road works. Celebration Brass were there too, and Deacon Liam Bradley from the diocese of Menevia, nearly at the end of his year’s placement in Salford diocese, sang the Gospel beautifully. Our musical banquet had, as usual, something for everyone.
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