A Solemn Mass will be sung for the First Sunday of Advent on Sunday 30 November at 10.30am.

This sacred season begins the Church’s holy watch, as we lift up our hearts in hopeful expectation of the coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Introit: Judith Weir – Drop down, ye heavens, from above
Setting: Giovanni Croce – Missa Sexti Primi Toni (K, Ag)
Gradual: Psalm 25
Creed: Shaw
Anthem: Paul Manz – E’en so Lord Jesus, quickly come

Hymns: 
On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (NEH, 12)
Lo! he comes with clouds descending (NEH, 9)
Ye servants of the Lord (NEH, 18)

ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead; we may rise to the life immortal; through the same Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.