O come, all you faithful,
joyful and triumphant!
Come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem!
Come and behold him,
born the King of angels:
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
Christ the Lord!
God of God,
Light of light,
Lo! he abhors not the virgin’s womb;
very God,
Begotten, not created:
O come, let us adore him…
Sing, choirs of angels,
sing in exultation!
Sing, all you citizens of heaven above,
‘Glory to God
in the highest!’
O come, let us adore him…
Yes, Lord, we greet you,
born for our salvation:
Jesus, to thee be glory given!
Word of the Father,
now in flesh appearing:
O come, let us adore him…
O little town of Bethlehem,
how still we see you lie!
Above your deep and dreamless sleep
the silent stars go by:
yet in your streets is shining
the everlasting light;
the hopes and fears of all the years
are met in you tonight.
O morning stars, together
proclaim the holy birth,
and praises sing to God the King
and peace to all the earth.
For Christ is born of Mary
and, gathered all above
while mortals sleep, the angels keep
their watch of wondering love.
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.
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.
See, amid the winter’s snow,
born for us on earth below;
see, the Lamb of God appears
promised from eternal years:
Hail, O ever blessed morn!
Hail, redemption’s happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem:
Christ is born in Bethlehem.’
Lowly in a manger lies
he who built the starry skies,
he who, throned in height sublime,
reigns above the cherubim:
Hail, O ever blessed morn!…
Say, you humble shepherds, say,
what’s your joyful news today?
Tell us why you left your sheep
on the lonely mountain steep?
Hail, O ever blessed morn!…
‘As we watched at dead of night,
round us blazed a glorious light;
angels singing: ‘Peace on earth!’
told us of a Saviour’s birth.’
Hail, O ever blessed morn!…
Sacred infant, all divine,
how your love and mercy shine,
coming from the highest bliss
down to such a world as this!
Hail, O ever blessed morn!…
Sung by the children:
A long long long long time ago
God made a promise: he would send a king
A great great great great great great grandson
Promised to David
He would be a great king who would rule forevermore
King forever,
King for everyone
King forever
Jesus, the king God had promised has come
A long long long long time ago
God sent a prophet to describe his king
Wonderful, powerful, peaceful, eternal
He will have a kingdom
It will have no end, he is the king of everyone
King forever,
King for everyone
King forever
Jesus, the king God had promised has come
A little less long but still quite long ago
God spoke to Mary: You will have a son
The great great great great great great grandson
Promised to David
You will call him Jesus and his kingdom will not end
King forever,
King for everyone
King forever
Jesus, the king God had promised has come
Copyright © 2016 Dan Adams
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Bible Reading – Isaac Carillo
26 In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you.”
29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favour with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For nothing is impossible with God.”
38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it be to me as you have said.” Then the angel left her.
Luke 1:26–38
Away in a manger,
No crib for His 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.
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,
‘Til morning is nigh.
Be near me, Lord Jesus,
I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever
And love me I pray
Bless all the dear children
In Thy tender care
And take us to heaven
To live with Thee there.
Hark! The herald angels sing,
‘Glory to the new-born King,
peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!’
Joyful, all you 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!’
Christ, by highest heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord;
late in time behold him come,
offspring of a virgin’s womb!
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see,
hail the incarnate Deity!
Pleased as man with man to dwell,
Jesus our Immanuel.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
‘Glory to the new-born King!’
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 we no more may die;
born to raise us from the earth,
born to give us second birth.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
‘Glory to the new-born King!’
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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