A Solemn Mass will be sung for the Third Sunday of Advent on Sunday 14 December at 10.30am.

As the season of Advent enters its joyful midpoint, Holy Church bids us to rejoice in the nearness of our Saviour’s coming. This Sunday, traditionally called Gaudete, lifts our hearts with the promise that the Lord is close at hand.

Introit: Anon – This is the day which the Lord hath made
Setting: Harold Darke – Communion Service in E (K, Ag)
Gradual: Palestrina – Matin Responsory
Creed: Shaw
Anthem: Henry Purcell – Rejoice in the Lord always

Hymns:
Hills of the North, rejoice (NEH, 7) 
O come, O come, Emmanuel! (NEH, 11)
Thy kingdom come! on bended knee (NEH, 500)

O LORD Jesus Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee: grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; that at thy second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in thy sight, who livest and reignest with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.