NEW COLLEGE CHAPEL

A Service of
Readings and Music
for the Season of Advent
Webcast version
SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER, 2016
5.30 p.m.

Advent is a time of waiting. We wait for the dawning of love in our hearts, as
all the earth waited for the birth of the child Jesus. We look back to that birth
two thousand years ago, and forward to the time when love comes again and
will wipe every tear from our eyes. We wait in darkness, we wait in hope, we
wait for renewal, we wait for the eternity of love to break into our frail mortal
time and declare that love makes all things new. In our service tonight, we
begin with the vision of the new city at the end of time, and end with the
dawning goodness of creation. We travel back in time, and forward in hope,
acknowledging that God is, and Gods love is from everlasting.

Peace
When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,
Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?
When, when, Peace, will you, Peace?Ill not play hypocrite
To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting, wars, the death of it?
O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu
Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite,
That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ (1844-89)
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ORGAN MUSIC
After the Service
Allegro con moto
Max Reger (1873-1916)
(Fantasie ber den Choral Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Op 52, no 2)

ORDER OF SERVICE
The congregation remains seated as the choir and clergy process from the
vestry into the antechapel.
The choir sings:
Conditor alme siderum
aeterna lux credentium
Christe redemptor omnium
exaudi preces supplicum.

Creator of the stars of night,

thy peoples everlasting light,
Jesu, redeemer, save us all,
and hear thy servants when they call.

Qui condolens interitu

mortis perire saeculum
salvasti mundum languidum
donans reis remedium.

Thou, grieving that the ancient curse

should doom to death a universe,
hast found the medicine, full of grace,
to save and heal a ruined race.

Vergente mundi vespere

uti sponsus de thalamo
egressus honestissima
Virginis matris clausula.

Thou camest, bridegroom of the bride,

as drew the world to evening tide,
proceeding from a virgin shrine,
the spotless victim all divine.

Cuius forti pontentiae

genu curvantur omnia
caelestia, terrestia
nutu fatentur subdita.

At whose dread name, majestic now,

all knees must bend, all hearts must bow;
and things celestial thee shall own,
and things terrestrial Lord alone.

Sit, Christe rex piissime

tibi Patrique gloria
cum Spiritu Paraclito
in sempiterna saecula.
Amen.

To God the Father, God the Son,

and God the Spirit, Three in One,
laud, honour, might, and glory be
from age to age eternally.
Amen.
Seventh-century office hymn
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FIRST READING
A new heaven and a new earth

Read by the Dean of Divinity

Revelation 21.1-6

MOTET

Matthew Martin (b. 1976)

Vidi aquam egredientem de templo, a latere dextro, alleluja: et
omnes, ad quos pervenit aqua ista, salvi facti sunt et dicent,
alleluja.
I saw water flowing from the temple, on the right side,
alleluia: and all to whom that water came have been
saved, and they will say, alleluia.

All stand to sing the hymn, as the choir and clergy process into the chapel.
O come, O come, Emmanuel!
Redeem thy captive Israel,
That into exile drear is gone
Far from the face of Gods dear Son.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, thou Branch of Jesse! draw
The quarry from the lions claw;
From the dread caverns of the grave,
From nether hell, thy people save.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, O come, thou Dayspring bright!

Pour on our souls thy healing light;
Dispel the long nights lingering gloom,
And pierce the shadows of the tomb.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, thou Lord of Davids key!
The royal door fling wide and free;
Safeguard for us the heavenward road,
And bar the way to deaths abode.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, O come, Adona,
Who in thy glorious majesty
From that high mountain clothed with awe
Gavest thy folk the elder law.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
All sit.
SECOND READING
Seeking the city of God

Read by the Warden

Hebrews 11.8-16

MOTET

William Byrd (1539/40-1623)

Domine, praestolamur adventum tuum, ut cito venias, et dissolvas
jugum captivitatem nostrae.
Veni, Domine, noli tardare, relaxa facinora plebi tuae, et libera
populum tuum.
O Lord, we await thy coming, that thou comest quickly
and dissolvest the bonds of our captivity.
Come, O Lord, and tarry not: forgive the misdeeds of thy
servants, and deliver thy people.
after Responsory for Fourth Friday in Advent

THIRD READING
A spring of living water

Read by the Subwarden

John 4.5-7, 9-14

MOTET

John Taverner (c.1490-1545)

Quemadmodum desiderat cervus ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat
anima mea ad te, Deus.
Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks: so longeth my
soul after thee, O God.
Psalm 42.1

All stand for the hymn.

The Lord will come and not be slow,

His footsteps cannot err;
Before him righteousness shall go,
His royal harbinger.
Truth from the earth, like to a flower,
Shall bud and blossom then;
And justice, from her heavenly bower,
Look down on mortal men.
Rise, God, judge thou the earth in might,
This wicked earth redress;
For thou art he who shalt by right
The nations all possess.
The nations all whom thou hast made
Shall come, and all shall frame
To bow them low before thee, Lord,
And glorify thy Name.
For great thou art, and wonders great
By thy strong hand are done:
Thou in thy everlasting seat
Remainest God alone.
John Milton (1608-1674)
FOURTH READING
The Lord will come and not be slow

Read by an undergraduate
Zechariah 10.1, 6-9

CAROL

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)

Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

aus einer Wurzel zart,
wie uns die Alten sungen,
von Jesse kam die Art;
und hat ein Blmlein bracht
mitten im kalten Winter,
wohl zu der halben Nacht.

A spotless rose is blowing,

sprung from a tender root,
of ancient seers foreshowing,
of Jesse promised fruit;
its fairest bud unfolds to light
amid the cold, cold winter,
and in the dark midnight.

Das Rslein das ich meine,

davon Jesaias sagt,
hat uns gebracht alleine
Marie, die reine Magd.
Aus Gottes ewgem Rat
hat sie ein Kind geboren,
wohl zu der halben Nacht.

The rose which I am singing,

whereof Isaiah said
is from its sweet root springing
in Mary, purest maid;
for through our Gods great love and might
the blessed babe she bare us
in a cold, cold winters night.
Sixteenth-century German Marian hymn

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FIFTH READING
The Annunciation

Read by an undergraduate
Luke 1.26-38

MOTET

Ruth Byrchmore (b. 1966)

A Birthday
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a waterd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a das of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

SIXTH READING
Rejoice in the city of God

Read by a chorister parent

Isaiah 66.10-14a

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PSALM

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Lauda, Jerusalem, Dominum; lauda Deum tuum, Sion.

Quoniam confortavit seras portarum tuarum; benedixit filiis tuis in te.
Qui posuit fines tuos pacem, et adipe frumenti satiat te.
Qui emittit eloquium suum terrae: velociter currit sermo ejus.
Qui dat nivem sicut lanam; nebulam sicut cinerem spargit.
Mittit crystallum suam sicut buccellas: ante faciem frigoris ejus quis
sustinebit?
Emittet verbum suum, et liquefaciet ea; flabit spiritus ejus, et fluent
aquae.
Qui annuntiat verbum suum Jacob, justitias et judicia sua Isral.
Non fecit taliter omni nationi, et judicia sua non manifestavit eis.
Gloria Patri, etc.
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.
For he hath made fast the bars of thy gates: and hath blessed thy
children within thee.
He maketh peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the flour of
wheat.
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: and his word
runneth very swiftly.
He giveth snow like wool: and scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who is able to abide his frost?
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he bloweth with his
wind, and the waters flow.
He sheweth his word unto Jacob: his statutes and ordinances unto
Israel.
He hath not dealt so with any nation: neither have the heathen
knowledge of his laws.
Psalm 147.12-20
All stand to sing the hymn.
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Hills of the North, rejoice;

River and mountain spring,
Hark to the advent voice;
Valley and lowland, sing;
Though absent long, your Lord is nigh;
He judgment brings and victory.
Isles of the southern seas,
Deep in your coral caves
Pent be each warring breeze,
Lulled be your restless waves:
He comes to reign with boundless sway,
And makes your wastes his great highway.
Lands of the East, awake,
Soon shall your sons be free;
The sleep of ages break,
And rise to liberty.
On your far hills, long cold and grey,
Has dawned the everlasting day.
Shores of the utmost West,
Ye that have waited long,
Unvisited, unblest,
Break forth to swelling song;
High raise the note, that Jesus died,
Yet lives and reigns, the Crucified.
Shout, while ye journey home;
Songs be in every mouth;
Lo, from the North we come,
From East, and West, and South.
City of God, the bond are free,
We come to live and reign in thee!
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SEVENTH READING
The Lord breaks the bonds of injustice

Read by the chapel warden

Isaiah 58.6-9a, 11

CANTICLE

Philip Moore (b. 1943)

O sing unto the Lord a new song: for he hath done
marvellous things.
With his own right hand, and with his holy arm: hath he
gotten himself the victory.
The Lord declared his salvation: his righteousness hath he
openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the
house of Israel: and all the ends of the world have seen
the salvation of our God.
Shew yourselves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands: sing,
rejoice, and give thanks.
Praise the Lord upon the harp: sing to the harp with a
psalm of thanksgiving.
With trumpets also and shawms: O shew yourselves joyful
before the Lord the King.
Let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is: the round
world, and they that dwell therein.
Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful
together before the Lord: for he is come to judge the
earth.
With righteousness shall he judge the world: and the
people with equity.
Glory be to the Father, etc.
Psalm 98

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EIGHTH READING
God appears to Moses

Read by a chorister
Exodus 3.1-15

MOTET

G. P. da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Surge, illuminare, Jerusalem, quia venit lumen tuum, et gloria
Domini super te orta est.
Quia ecce tenebrae operient terram et caligo populos.
Super te autem orietur Dominus et gloria ejus in te videbitur.
Arise, shine, O Jerusalem; for thy light is come, and the
glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross
darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee,
and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
Isaiah 60.1-2

All stand to sing the hymn.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending
Once for favoured sinners slain;
Thousand thousand Saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluya!
God appears, on earth to reign.

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Every eye shall now behold him

Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing
Shall the true Messiah see.
Those dear tokens of his passion
Still his dazzling body bears,
Cause of endless exultation
To his ransomed worshippers:
With what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!
Yea, amen! Let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory:
Claim the kingdom for thine own:
O come quickly!
Alleluya! Come, Lord, come!
All remain standing.
NINTH READING
The beginning

Read by the Dean of Divinity

Genesis 1.1-2.3

All sit.

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MOTET

Edward Bainton (1929-88)

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first
heaven and first earth had passed away, and there was no
more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down
from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned
for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying: Behold,
the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell
with them and they shall be his people; and God himself
shall be with them and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and
there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain, for the former
things are passed away.
Revelation 21.1-4

All stand.

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PRAYERS
Chaplain Let us pray that we may watch faithfully until the coming
of our Lord.
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of
darkness and to put on the armour of light, now in the
time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ
came to us in great humility; that on the last day, when he
shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge the living
and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through
him who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the
Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
May God the Father, judge all-merciful,
make us worthy of a place in his kingdom.
Amen.
May God the Son, coming among us in power,
reveal in our midst the promise of his glory.
Amen.
May God the Holy Spirit make us steadfast in faith,
joyful in hope and constant in love.
Amen.
And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit, be with you all, evermore.
Amen.
All remain standing to sing the hymn.

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Of the Fathers heart begotten,

Ere the world from chaos rose,
He is Alpha: from that Fountain,
All that is and hath been flows;
He is Omega, of all things
Yet to come the mystic Close,
Evermore and evermore.
By his word was all created;
He commanded and twas done;
Earth and sky and boundless ocean,
Universe of three in one,
All that sees the moons soft radiance,
All that breathes beneath the sun,
Evermore and evermore.
This is he, whom seer and sibyl
Sang in ages long gone by;
This is he of old reveald
In the page of prophecy;
Lo! He comes, the promised Saviour;
Let the world his praises cry!
Evermore and evermore.
Sing, ye heights of heaven, his praises;
Angels and Archangels, sing!
Wheresoeer ye be, ye faithful,
Let your joyous anthems ring;
Every tongue his name confessing,
Countless voices answering,
Evermore and evermore.
The congregation remains standing as the clergy and choir leave the chapel.
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