Saturday, 24 December 2016
| Opening Hymn | Adeste Fideles |
| Reading | Isaiah 11:1-10 (A shoot springs from the stock of Jesse) |
| Choir | Lo, how a rose e’er blooming (David Blackwell) |
| Hymn | Once in royal David’s city |
| Reading | Micah 5:1-4 (Out of you, Bethlehem, will be born the one…) |
| Choir | Candlelight Carol (John Rutter) |
| Hymn | O little town of Bethlehem |
| Reading | Isaiah 52: 7-10 (How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of one…) |
| Christmas Proclamation | |
| Gloria | Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd) |
| Reading | Isaiah 9:2-7 (The people that walked in darkness) |
| Psalm | Today a Saviour has been born (Martin Foster) |
| Reading | Titus 2:11-14 (God’s grace has been revealed) |
| Gospel Acclamation | St Agatha Alleluia (mcb) |
| Reading | Luke 2:1-14 (The Nativity) |
| Creed | Credo III & Et Incarnatus from the Mass for three voices (William Byrd, c.1540-1623) |
| Preparation of the gifts | In the bleak midwinter (Holst) |
| Sanctus, Acclamation A, Amen | Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd) |
| Agnus Dei | Missa Ubi Caritas |
| Communion | My Lord has come (Will Todd) – Choir Silent Night |
| Recessional | Hark the herald angels sing |
We kept to last year’s pattern, which seemed to work so well. Bob Hurd’s vigorous and festive setting of the Gloria was given added energy by the addition of brass and drum.
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