1st Sunday Advent Yr A - 1 Dec 2013

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(Musicians: Please note that we will not be using more than 2 instruments per song. Nik to discuss tomorrow)

Entrance: 824  City of God
Lighting of the Candle:  (Angel voices)
Gospel Acclamation 69 Advent Alleluia: Joncas
Offertory 607 Let all mortal Flesh
Sanctus plainchant
Mem. Acclam. plainchant
Lamb of God plainchant
Communion 910 Christ be beside me
                       88 Wait for the Lord
Final        987  Mine eyes have seen the glory

Entrance: 824  City of God
http://www.spiritandsong.com/compositions/1642
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po0Hz4LkA_g
CHORDS: http://www.catholicsongbook.com/2013/03/city-of-god.html

1. Awake from your slumber! Arise from your sleep!
A new day is dawning for all those who weep.
The people in darkness have seen a great light.
The Lord of our longing has conquered the night.

Refrain: Let us build the city of God.
May our tears be turned into dancing!
For the Lord, our light and our Love,
has turned the night into day!

2. We are sons of the morning; we are daughters of day.
The One who has loved us has brightened our way.
The Lord of all kindness has called us to be
a light for his people to set their hearts free.

3. (coda) God is light; in him there is no darkness.
Let us walk in his light, his children one and all.

O comfort my people make gentle your words,
proclaim to my city the day of her birth.

4. O City of gladness now lift up your voice,
proclaim the good tidings that all may rejoice

Lighting of the Candle:  (Tune: Angel voices)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8mS61gvYJQ
SHEET MUSIC: http://www.cantatedomino.org/cd/index.shtml?144.txt

Advent week 1
Advent candles tell their story
As we watch and pray
Longing for the Day of Glory,
‘Come, Lord, soon,’ we say.
Pain and sorrow, tears and sadness
Changed for gladness on that, Day.

Psalm (not sung)

Gospel Acclamation 69 Advent Alleluia (Joncas)
http://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=7983

Alleluia, alleluia!
Alleluia, alleluia!


Offertory  607 Let all mortal Flesh
jeff macare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywVMxW3BUW8 (with extra bar each line)
Cynthia clawson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spwcPxux740
king’s college: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5WWy-uk0U correct timing but strange arrangement
CHORDS: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/f/fernando_ortega/let_all_mortal_flesh_keep_silence_crd.htm

Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
And with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing worldly minded,
For with blessing in His hand
Christ our God to Earth descendeth,
Our full homage to demand.

King of Kings, yet born of Mary,
As of old on Earth He stood,
Lord of Lords in human vesture,
in the Body and the Blood.
He will give to all the faithful
his own self for heav’nly food.

Rank on rank the host of heaven
preads its vanguard on the way,
as the Light of Light descendeth
from the realms of endless day,
that the pow’rs of hell may vanish
as the darkness clears away.

At His feet the six-winged Seraph,
Cherubim with sleepless eye,
veil their faces to the Presence,
as with ceaseless voice they cry,
‘Alleluia, alleluia,
Alleluia, Lord, most High!’

Sanctus plainchant
Mem. Acclam. plainchant
Lamb of God plainchant

Communion

910  Christ be beside me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CJv4p5CuKc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGvQaF1hiPY

Christ be beside me, Christ be before me,
Christ be behind me, King of my heart.
Christ be within me, Christ be below me,
Christ be above me, never to part.

Christ on my right hand, Christ on my left hand,
Christ all around me, shield in the strife.
Christ in my sleeping, Christ in my sitting,
Christ in my rising, light of my life.

Christ be in all hearts thinking about me,
Christ be on all tongues telling of me.
Christ be the vision in eyes that see me,
In ears that hear me, Christ ever be.

Communion 2 88 Wait for the Lord (Taize chant)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mLfr2vfbZk
alto:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khr4WiXCbNs
tenor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z41SdOxvcO4
bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWSsjEzlGcQ

Wait for the Lord, whose day is near
Wait for the Lord, keep watch, take heart.

Final 987  Mine eyes have seen the glory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTeez87C9Y8 (without key changes)
CHORDS: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/m/misc_traditional/battle_hymn_of_the_republic_crd.htm

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

Chorus:
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps
They have gilded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
(repeat Chorus)

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.
(repeat Chorus)

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make us holy, let us make all people free;
Whilst God is marching on.
(repeat Chorus)