Christmas Eve ~ The Vigil of the Nativity

Christmas Eve

Tuesday, December 24

8:00 p.m. MUSICAL PRELUDE with CAROLS of the Season for choir and congregation by candlelight

• Prelude: Hymn 92 ~ “On this day earth shall ring” ~ Personent hodie
• Chaconne in G minor for Violin and Continuo ~ Marc Rovetti, violin ~ Tomaso Antonio Vitali (d. 1745)
• Carol (choir) ~ Jesus Christ the apple tree ~ Elizabeth Poston (d. 1987)
• Hymn 101 ~ “Away in a manger” ~ Cradle Song
• Carol (choir) ~ Lullee, lullay ~ Peter Niedmann
• Hymn 107 ~ “Good Christian friends, rejoice” ~ In ducli jubilo
• Organ:  In ducli jubilo ~ Sigfrid Karg-Elert (d. 1933)

8:30 p.m.  SOLEMN HIGH MASS of THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD

Music:

• Ordinary of the Mass:  Missa Papae Marcelli ~ Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina  (d. 1594)
• Hymn 83 ~ “O come, all ye faithful” ~ Adeste fidelis
• Hymn 82 ~ “Of the Father’s love begotten” ~ Divinum mysterium
• Motet choir) ~ Hodie Christus natus est ~ Healey Willan (d. 1968)
• Hymn 78 ~ “O Little Town of Bethlehem” ~ Forest Green
• Motet (choir) ~ O magnum mysterium ~ Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611)
• Hymn 111 ~ “Silent night” ~ Stille Nacht
• Hymn 87 ~ “Hark! the herald angels sing” ~ Mendelssohn
• Voluntary:  Bring a torch, Jeanette, Isabella  ~ arr. Keith Chapman (d. 1989)

Preacher: The Rev. Deacon Marta S. Rivera Monclova, PhD, Deacon