December 24, 2025 - Christmas Eve
Replay of livestream 10:00 worship service
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Celebrate the arrival of the Light with a 5:00p candlelight service of special music, Holy Communion, and the Christmas story. The evening service begins with an “interrupted processional” and concludes with the congregation lifting their voices to “Silent Night” in candlelight.
Liturgical music and selected liturgies from sundaysandseasons.com. Copyright © 2025 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted/ podcast/ streamed by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #SAS103718. • New Revised Standard Version (Updated Edition) Bible, copyright © 2022, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. • Hymns reprinted/ podcast/ streamed with permission under OneLicense.net License #A-722966. • Hymns reprinted/ podcast/ streamed with permission under CCLI License #AH-21591520 and 21591513. All rights reserved • “Narrative Lectionary 2025-2026” https://www.workingpreacher.org/home-narrative-lectionary.. Accessed 12 August 2025. Interrupted Prelude: "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" Text: Edmund H. Sears, 1810-1876. Music: Richard S. Willis, 1819-1900. "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly" Text: Polish carol; tr. Edith M. G. Reed, 1885-1933, alt. Music: Polish carol. "Once in Royal David's City" Text: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Music: Henry J. Guantlett, 1805-1876. "Angels We Have Heard on High" Text: French carol; tr. H. F. Hemy, The Crown of Jesus Music, 1864. Music: French carol; arr. Edward S. Barnes, 1887-1958. "In the Bleak Midwinter" Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830-1894. Music: Gustav Holst, 1874-1934. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" Text: Phillips Brooks, 1835-1893. Music: Lewis H. Redner, 1831-1908.Public domain.
Hymn: "O Come, All Ye Faithful" Text: attr. John Francis Wade, 1711-1786; tr. Frederick Oakeley, 1802-1880, sts. 1, 3-4; tr. Unknown, st. 2. Music: attr. John Francis Wade.
Hymn of the Day: "What Child Is This" Text: William C. Dix, 1837-1898. Music: English ballad, 16th cent. Musical Offering: "Is Your Heart Prepared for a King?" Text and music: Robert Lau (ASCAP) © 1993, 2001, Harold Flammer Music, a division of Shawnee Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
Hymn during Communion: "Away in a Manger" Text: North American, 19th cent. Music: James R. Murray, 1841-1905.
Music during Communion: “Amid the Cold of Winter” (with “In the Bleak Midwinter” and “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”) arr. Brett Rhoades. © 2004 Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved.
Candle Light Carol: "Silent Night" Text: Joseph Mohr, 1792-1849; tr. John F. Young, 1820-1885. Music: Franz Gruber, 1787-1863.
Sending Hymn: "Joy to the World" Text: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748. Music: English melody, 18th cent.; arr. Lowell Mason, 1792-1872.
Postlude: "Sussex Carol" arr. Noel Rawsthorne. Melody collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams. © Stainer & Bell Ltd.