We welcome you to our Service of Carols by Candlelight

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• We welcome you to our Service of Carols by
  Candlelight

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• O Come, O Come, Immanuel,
• And ransom captive Israel,
• That mourns in lonely exile here
• Until the Son of God appear
• Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel
• Shall come to thee, O Israel.

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• O come, O come, thou Lord of might,
• Who to thy tribes, on Sinais height,
• In ancient times didst give the law
• In cloud, and majesty, and awe
• Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel
• Shall come to thee, O Israel.

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• O come, thou Rod of Jesse, free
• Thine own from Satans tyranny
• From depths of hell thy people save,
• And give them victry oer the graveRejoice!
  Rejoice! Immanuel
• Shall come to thee, O Israel.

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• O come, thou Key of David, come,
• And open wide our heavnly home
• Make safe the way that leads on high,
• And close the path to misery
• Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel
• Shall come to thee, O Israel.

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• O come, thou Day-spring, come and cheer
• Our spirits by thine advent here
• Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
• And deaths dark shadows put to flight
• Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel
• Shall come to thee, O Israel.

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• Isaiah 9 v 2 - 7

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• O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
• How still we see thee lie!
• Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
• The silent stars go by
• Yet in the dark streets shineth
• The everlasting light!
• The hopes and fears of all the years
• Are met in thee tonight.

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• O morning stars, together
• Proclaim the holy birth,
• And praises sing to God the King,
• And peace to men on earth
• For Christ is born of Mary,
• And, gathered all above,
• While mortals sleep, the angels keep
• Their watch of wondering love.

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• How silently, how silently
• The wondrous gift is given
• So God imparts to human hearts
• The blessings of His heaven.
• No ear may hear His coming,
• But in this world of sin,
• Where meek souls will receive Him, still
• The dear Christ enters in.

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• O Holy Child of Bethlehem
• Descend to us, we pray
• Cast out our sin and enter in
• Be born in us today.
• We hear the Christmas angels
• The great glad tidings tell
• O come to us, abide with us,
• Our Lord Immanuel.

Philip Brookes (1835-93) Public Domain
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• Luke 1 v 26 38
• Matthew 1 v 18 - 25

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• HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING,
• Glory to the new-born King!
• Peace on earth and mercy mild,
• God and sinners reconciled.
• Joyful, all ye nations rise,
• Join the triumph of the skies
• With the angelic host proclaim
• Christ is born in Bethlehem
• Hark! the herald angels sing
• Glory to the new-born King

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• Christ, by highest heaven adored,
• Christ, the everlasting Lord,
• Late in time, behold Him come,
• Off-spring of a virgins womb!
• Veiled in flesh the Godhead see
• Hail the incarnate deity!
• Pleased as man with men to dwell,
• Jesus, our Emmanuel.
• Hark! the herald angels sing
• Glory to the new-born King

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• Hail, the heaven born Prince of Peace
• Hail, the Sun of Righteousness!
• Light and life to all He brings,
• Risen with healing in His wings.
• Mild He lays His glory by,
• Born that man no more may die
• Born to raise the sons of earth,
• Born to give them second birth.
• Hark! the herald angels sing
• Glory to the new-born King

Charles Wesley (1707-88) Public Domain
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• Luke 2 v 1 7
• Luke 2 v 8 - 14

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• WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT,
• All seated on the ground.
• The angel of the Lord came down
• And glory shone around.
• Fear not, said he, for mighty dread
• Had seized their troubled mind
• Glad tidings of great joy I bring
• To you and all mankind.

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• To you in Davids town this day
• Is born of Davids line
• A Saviour, who is Christ the Lord
• And this shall be the sign
• The heavenly babe you there shall find
• To human view displayed
• All meanly wrapped in swathing bands
• And in a manger laid.

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• Thus spake the seraph and forthwith
• Appeared a shining throng
• Of angels praising God, who thus
• Addressed their joyful song.
• All glory be to God most high
• And to the earth be peace
• Goodwill henceforth from heaven to men
• Begin and never cease.

Nahum Tate (1652-1715) Public Domain
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• Luke 2 v 15 - 20

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• AWAY IN A MANGER, NO CRIB FOR A BED
• The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head
• The stars in the bright sky looked down where He
  lay,
• The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay.

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• The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes,
• But little Lord Jesus, no crying He makes.
• I love Thee, Lord Jesus! Look down from the sky,
• And stay by my side until morning is nigh.

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• Be near me, Lord Jesus I ask Thee to stay
• Close by me for ever, and love me, I pray.
• Bless all the dear children in Thy tender care,
• And fit us for heaven to live with Thee there.

Words, v1 and 2 - unknown, v3 - J.T. McFarland,
Music, W.J. Kirkpatrick (1838-1921) Public Domain
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• Matthew 2 v 1 12
• John 1 v 1 14
• Rev 1 v 1 - 8

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• Silent night, holy night
• Sleeps the world hid from sight,
• Mary and Joseph in stable bare
• Watch oer the child beloved and fair
• Sleeping in heavenly rest.

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• Silent night, holy night
• Shepherds first saw the light,
• Heard resounding clear and long,
• Far and near, the angel-song
• Christ the Redeemer is here!

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• Silent night, holy night
• Son of God, O how bright
• Love is smiling from thy face!
• Strikes for us now the hour of grace,
• Saviour, since thou art born!

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• O Come all ye faithful,
• Joyful and triumphant,
• O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem
• Come and behold him,
• Born the King of angels
• O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord.

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• True God of true God,
• Light of Light eternal,
• Lo, he abhors not the virgins womb
• Son of the Father,
• Begotten, not created
• O Come let us adore him,
• Christ the Lord.

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• See how the shepherds,
• Summoned to his cradle,
• Leaving their flocks, draw nigh to gaze
• We too will thither
• Bend our joyful footsteps
• O Come, let us adore him,
• Christ the Lord.

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• Lo, star-led chieftains,
• Magi, Christ adoring,
• Offer him incense, gold and myrrh
• We to the Christ-child
• Bring our hearts oblations
• O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord.

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• Sing, choirs of angels,
• Sing in exultation,
• Sing all ye citizens of heaven above
• Glory to God
• In the highest
• O come, let us adore him,
• Christ the Lord.

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• While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
• All seated on the ground,
• The angel of the Lord came down,
• And glory shone around.

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• Fear not said he (for mighty dread
• Had seized their troubled minds),
• Glad tidings of great joy bring
• To you and all mankind.

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• To you in Davids town this day
• Is born of Davids line
• A Saviour, who is Christ the Lord
• And this shall be a sign

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• The heavenly Babe you there shall find
• To human view displayed,
• All meanly wrapped in swaddling bands,
• And in a manger laid.

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• Thus spake the seraph and forthwith
• Appeared a shining throng
• Of angels praising God, and thus
• Addressed their joyful song

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• All glory be to God on high,
• And to the earth be peace
• Goodwill henceforth from heaven to men
• Begin and never cease.

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• The holly and the ivy
• Are dancing in a ring,
• Round the berry-bright red candles
• And the white and shining King.
• Oh, one is for Gods people
• In every age and day.
• We are watching for his coming
• We believe and we obey.

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• And two is for the prophets
• And for the light they bring.
• They are candles in the darkness,
• All alight for Christ the King.
• And three for John the Baptist.
• He calls on us to sing
• O prepare the way for Jesus Christ,
• He is coming, Christ the King.

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• And four for Mother Mary.
• I cannot see the way,
• But you promise me a baby.
• I believe you. I obey.
• And Christ is in the centre,
• For this is his birthday,
• With the shining lights of Christmas
• Singing He has come today!

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• ONCE, IN ROYAL DAVIDS CITY,
• Stood a lowly cattle-shed.
• Where a mother laid her baby,
• In a manger for His bed.
• Mary was that mother mild,
• Jesus Christ, her little child.

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• He came down to earth from heaven,
• Who is God and Lord of all,
• And His shelter was a stable,
• And His cradle was a stall
• With the poor and mean and lowly
• Lived on earth our Saviour holy.

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• And through all His wondrous childhood
• He would honour and obey,
• Love and watch the lowly mother,
• In whose gentle arms He lay.
• Christian children all must be
• Mild, obedient, good as He.

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• For He is our childhoods pattern
• Day by day like us He grew
• He was little, weak, and helpless,
• Tears and smiles like us He knew.
• And He feeleth for our sadness,
• And He shareth in our gladness.

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• And our eyes at last shall see Him,
• Through His own redeeming love
• For that child, so dear and gentle
• Is our Lord in heaven above.
• And He leads His children on
• To the place where He is gone.

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• Not in that poor, lowly stable
• With the oxen standing by,
• We shall see Him - but in heaven,
• Set at Gods right hand on high
• When like stars His children crowned
• All in white shall wait around.

Cecil Frances Alexander (1823-95) Public Domain
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• Hark! The herald angels sing
• Glory to the new born King,
• Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
• God and sinners reconciled.
• Joyful all ye nations, rise,
• Join the triumph of the skies
• With the angelic host proclaim
• Christ is born in Bethlehem.

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• Hark! The Herald angels sing
• Glory to the new-born King.

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• Christ, by highest heaven adored,
• Christ the everlasting Lord,
• Late in time behold Him come,
• Offspring of a virgins womb.
• Veiled in flesh the Godhead see!
• Hail the incarnate Deity!
• Pleased as man with men to dwell,
• Jesus, our Immanuel

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• Hark! The Herald angels sing
• Glory to the new-born King.

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• Hail, the heaven born Prince of Peace!
• Hail, the Sun of Righteousness!
• Light and life to all he brings,
• Risen with healing in his wings.
• Mild he lays his glory by,
• Born that man no more may die,
• Born to raise the sons of earth,
• Born to give them second birth

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• Hark! The Herald angels sing
• Glory to the new-born King.

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• See amid the winters snow,
• Born for us on earth below,
• See, the Lamb of God appears,
• Promised from eternal years!
• Hail, thou ever-blessèd morn!
• Hail, redemptions happy dawn!
• Sing through all Jerusalem
• Christ is born in Bethlehem!

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• Lo within a manger lies
• He who built the starry skies,
• He who, throned in height sublime,
• Sits amid the cherubim!
• Hail, thou ever-blessèd morn!
• Hail, redemptions happy dawn!
• Sing through all Jerusalem
• Christ is born in Bethlehem!

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• Say, you holy shepherds, say,
• What your joyful news to-day
• Wherefore have you left your sheep
• On the lonely mountain steep?
• Hail, thou ever-blessèd morn!
• Hail, redemptions happy dawn!
• Sing through all Jerusalem
• Christ is born in Bethlehem!

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• As we watched at dead of night,
• Lo, we saw a wondrous light
• Angels, singing Peace on earth,
• Told us of a Saviours birth.
• Hail, thou ever-blessèd morn!
• Hail, redemptions happy dawn!
• Sing through all Jerusalem
• Christ is born in Bethlehem!

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• Sacred Infant, all divine,
• What a tender love was thine,
• Thus to come from highest bliss
• Down to such a world as this!
• Hail, thou ever-blessèd morn!
• Hail, redemptions happy dawn!
• Sing through all Jerusalem
• Christ is born in Bethlehem!

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