December 8, 2024

The Second Sunday of Advent
Sunday Worship at 10 am
The Rev. Michael L. Bradley, Rector

Holy Communion for all ~ Music for organ and voices 
Dr. Joseph D. Daniel-Hoste, Organist and Choir Director

 

This Week's Inspiration

Cyril of Jerusalem, from Catechetical Lectures, written about 348 CE.

“We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but a second as well, much more glorious than the first. The first coming was marked by patience; the second will bring the crown of a divine kingdom.

At the first coming he was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At his second coming he will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming he endured the cross, despising the shame; in the second coming he will be in glory, escorted by an army of angels. We look then beyond the first coming and await the second. At the first coming we said: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” At the second we shall say it again, we shall go out with the angels to meet the Lord and cry out in adoration: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”

Prelude

 Nun komm der Heiden Heiland

Gerald Near

Choral Anthem

Every Valley

John Ness Beck

St. Michael’s Choir, with
Stephanie Dean, Soprano
Brooks Daniel-Hoste, Tenor

Solo during communion

Advent Lullaby

Stephanie Dean, Soprano

Postlude

Prepare the Royal Highway

J. William Greene

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