NEW COLLEGE CHAPEL

A Service of
Readings and Music
for the Season of Advent

SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER, 2015

5.30 p.m.

ORDER OF SERVICE WEBCAST VERSION

The congregation remains seated as the choir and clergy process from the
vestry into the antechapel.
The choir sings:
Conditor alme siderum
aeterna lux credentium
Christe redemptor omnium
exaudi preces supplicum.

Creator of the stars of night,

Thy peoples everlasting light,
Jesu, Redeemer, save us all,
and hear thy servants when they call.

Qui condolens interitu

mortis perire saeculum
salvasti mundum languidum
donans reis remedium.

Thou, grieving that the ancient curse

should doom to death a universe,
hast found the medicine, full of grace,
to save and heal a ruined race.

Vergente mundi vespere

uti sponsus de thalamo
egressus honestissima
Virginis matris clausula.

Thou camest, Bridegroom of the Bride,

as drew the world to evening tide,
proceeding from a virgin shrine,
the spotless Victim all divine.

Cuius forti potentiae

genu curvantur omnia
caelestia, terrestria
nutu fatentur subdita.

At whose dread Name, majestic now,

all knees must bend, all hearts must bow;
and things celestial thee shall own,
and things terrestrial Lord alone.

Sit, Christe rex piissime

tibi Patrique gloria
cum Spiritu Paraclito
in sempiterna saecula.
Amen.

To God the Father, God the Son,

and God the Spirit, Three in One,
laud, honour, might, and glory be
from age to age eternally.
Amen.
7th century office hymn
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All stand for the introduction and opening prayers.

Chaplain In the name of God, who has delivered us from the
dominion of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom
of his beloved Son we welcome you: grace to you and
peace.
We are gathered together to proclaim and receive in our
hearts the good news of the coming of Gods kingdom,
and so prepare ourselves to celebrate with confidence and
joy the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
We pray that we may respond in penitence and faith to the
glory of his kingdom, its works of justice and its promise
of peace, its blessing and its hope.
And as we seek to renew our allegiance to Gods loving
purpose, we pray for all who at this time especially need
his pity and protection: the sick in body, mind or spirit;
those who suffer from loss of dignity or loss of hope; those
who face the future with fear, or walk in the shadow of
death.
May God, of his grace and mercy, grant to all his people a
new trust in his good providence and a new obedience to
his sovereign word, for to him is most justly due all glory,
honour, worship and praise, world without end.
Amen.
All sit.

MOTET

Francisco Guerrero (1528-99)

Veni Domine et noli tardare.
Veni ad salvandum nos, Domine
Deus noster, et ostende faciem tuam et salvi erimus.
Sicut mater consolatur filios, ita consolaberis nos.
Et gaudebit cor nostrum corde perfecto.
Come, Lord, and do not delay.
Come and save us, O Lord our God;
show us your face and we shall be saved.
As a mother consoles her children, so shall you console us;
and our hearts shall rejoice in your perfect heart.
after various biblical sources

All stand to sing the hymn, as the choir and clergy process into the chapel.

O come, O come, Emmanuel!

Redeem thy captive Israel,
That into exile drear is gone
Far from the face of Gods dear Son.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, thou Branch of Jesse! draw
The quarry from the lions claw;
From the dread caverns of the grave,
From nether hell, thy people save.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, O come, thou Dayspring bright!
Pour on our souls thy healing light;
Dispel the long nights lingering gloom,
And pierce the shadows of the tomb.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, thou Lord of Davids key!
The royal door fling wide and free;
Safeguard for us the heavenward road,
And bar the way to deaths abode.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, O come, Adona,
Who in thy glorious majesty
From that high mountain clothed with awe
Gavest thy folk the elder law.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
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All sit.
FIRST LESSON

read by the Warden

Prepare the Way of the Lord

MOTET

Isaiah 43: 15-21

Andreas Hammerschmidt (1612-75)

Machet die Thore weit
und die Thren in der Welt hoch,
dass der Knig der Ehren einziehe.
Wer ist der selbige Knig der Ehren?
Es ist der Herr,
starck und mchtig im Streit.
Machet die Thore weit
und die Thren in der Welt hoch!
Hosianna in der Hhe.
Lift up your heads, O gates!
and be lifted up, O ancient doors!
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory?
The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord, mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O gates!
and be lifted up, O ancient doors!
that the King of glory may come in.
Hosanna in the highest.
Psalm 24

SECOND LESSON

read by the Sub-Warden

The Message of Peace

CAROL

Isaiah 40: 1-11

Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)

Out of your sleep arise and wake,

For God mankind hath now ytake.
All of a maid without any make;
Of all women she beareth the bell.
And through a maid fair and wise,
Now man is made of full great price;
Now angels knelen to man's service,
And at this time all this befell.
Now man is brighter than the sun;
Now man in heavn on high shall won;
Blessd be God this game is begun
And his mother the Empress of hell.
That ever was thrall now is he free;
That ever was small now great is she;
Now shall God deem both thee and me
Unto his bliss if we do well.
Now man he may to heaven wend;
Now heavn and earth to him they bend.
He that was foe now is our friend.
This is no nay that I you tell.
Now blessd Brother grant us grace,
At dooms day to see thy face,
And in thy court to have a place,
That we may there sing thee nowell.
anonymous 15th century
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THIRD LESSON

read by an undergraduate

The people that walked in darkness

CHORUS

Isaiah 52: 7-10

G. F. Handel (1685-1759)
from Messiah

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

and all flesh shall see it together;
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isaiah 40.5
All stand to sing the hymn.
Hills of the North, rejoice;
River and mountain spring,
Hark to the advent voice;
Valley and lowland, sing;
Though absent long, your Lord is nigh;
He judgment brings and victory.
Isles of the southern seas,
Deep in your coral caves
Pent be each warring breeze,
Lulled be your restless waves:
He comes to reign with boundless sway,
And makes your wastes his great highway.
Lands of the East, awake,
Soon shall your sons be free;
The sleep of ages break,
And rise to liberty.
On your far hills, long cold and grey,
Has dawned the everlasting day.
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Shores of the utmost West,

Ye that have waited long,
Unvisited, unblest,
Break forth to swelling song;
High raise the note, that Jesus died,
Yet lives and reigns, the Crucified.
Shout, while ye journey home;
Songs be in every mouth;
Lo, from the North we come,
From East, and West, and South.
City of God, the bond are free,
We come to live and reign in thee!
All sit.
FOURTH LESSON

read by a chapel warden

A Kingdom of Peace and Justice

MOTET

Isaiah 11: 1-9

Anton Bruckner (1824-96)

Virga Jesse floruit:

Virgo Deum et hominem genuit:
pacem Deus reddidit
in se reconcilians ima summis.
Alleluja.
The rod of Jesse hath blossomed:
a Virgin hath brought forth God and man.
God hath restored peace,
reconciling in Himself
the lowest with the highest.
Alleluia at the Feast of the Annunciation
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FIFTH LESSON

read by a chorister parent

The Forerunner: the Birth of John the Baptist

ANTHEM

Luke 1: 5-25

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

This is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests
and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,
Who art thou?
And he confessed, and denied not; and said plainly,
I am not the Christ.
And they asked him, What art thou then?
Art thou Elias? And he said, I am not.
Art thou that prophet?
And he answered, No.
Then said they unto him, What art thou?
that we may give an answer unto them that sent us.
What sayest thou of thyself?
And he said, I am the voice of him
that crieth in the wilderness,
Make straight the way of the Lord.
John 1: 19-23

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SIXTH LESSON

read by a chorister

The Annunciation
CAROL

Luke 1: 26-38

Traditional Basque, arr. Edgar Pettman (1866-1943)

The angel Gabriel from heaven came
His wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame;
All hail said he thou lowly maiden Mary,
Most highly favoured lady. Gloria!
For known a blessd mother thou shalt be,
All generations laud and honour thee,
Thy Son shall be Emanuel, by seers foretold:
Then gentle Mary meekly bowed her head;
To me be as it pleaseth God, she said,
My soul shall laud and magnify his holy name.
Of her, Emanuel, the Christ was born
In Bethlehem, all on a Christmas morn;
And Christian folk throughout the world will ever say:
Traditional Basque, paraphrased by S. Baring Gould (1834-1924)

MOTET

Francisco Guerrero (1528-99)

Ave virgo sanctissima,
Dei mater piissima,
Maris stella clarissima:
Salve semper gloriosa,
Margarita pretiosa,
Sicut lilium formosa,
Nitens, olens velut rosa.

Hail, most holy virgin,

most righteous mother of God,
brightest star of the sea:
hail ever glorious,
precious pearl,
fair as the lily,
shining and fragrant as the rose.

Antiphon for the Nativity of St John the Baptist

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All stand to sing the hymn.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending
Once for favoured sinners slain;
Thousand thousand Saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluya!
God appears, on earth to reign.
Every eye shall now behold him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing
Shall the true Messiah see.
Those dear tokens of his passion
Still his dazzling body bears,
Cause of endless exultation
To his ransomed worshippers:
With what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!
Yea, amen! Let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory:
Claim the kingdom for thine own:
O come quickly!
Alleluya! Come, Lord, come!
All remain standing.

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SEVENTH LESSON

read by the Chaplain

The Song of Mary

Luke 1: 39-45

All sit.
CANTICLE

Kenneth Leighton (1929-88)

Magdalen College Service
My soul doth magnify the Lord:
and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded: the lowliness of his handmaiden.
For behold, from henceforth:
all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath magnified me:
and holy is his Name.
And his mercy is on them that fear him:
throughout all generations.
He hath shewed strength with his arm: he hath scattered
the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seat:
and hath exalted the humble and meek.
He hath filled the hungry with good things:
and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He remembering his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel:
as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed,
for ever.
Glory be to Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be:
world without end. Amen.
Luke 1: 4655

All stand.
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PRAYERS
Chaplain Let us pray that we may watch faithfully until the coming
of our Lord.
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of
darkness and to put on the armour of light, now in the
time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ
came to us in great humility; that on the last day, when he
shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge the living
and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through
him who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the
Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
May God the Father, judge all-merciful,
make us worthy of a place in his kingdom.
Amen.
May God the Son, coming among us in power,
reveal in our midst the promise of his glory.
Amen.
May God the Holy Spirit make us steadfast in faith,
joyful in hope and constant in love.
Amen.
And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit, be with you all, evermore.
Amen.

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Of the Fathers heart begotten,

Ere the world from chaos rose,
He is Alpha: from that Fountain
All that is and hath been flows;
He is Omega, of all things
Yet to come the mystic Close,
Evermore and evermore.
By his word was all created;
He commanded and twas done;
Earth and sky and boundless ocean,
Universe of three in one,
All that sees the moons soft radiance,
All that breathes beneath the sun,
Evermore and evermore.
This is he, whom seer and sibyl
Sang in ages long gone by;
This is he of old reveald
In the page of prophecy;
Lo! He comes, the promised Saviour;
Let the world his praises cry!
Evermore and evermore.
Sing, ye heights of heaven, his praises;
Angels and Archangels, sing!
Wheresoeer ye be, ye faithful,
Let your joyous anthems ring;
Every tongue his name confessing,
Countless voices answering,
Evermore and evermore.

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