Advent Sunday, 29th November at 6.30pm
✨ ✨ ✨ “VENI EMMANUEL” ✨ ✨ ✨
Join us at Selby Abbey for “Veni Emmanuel”, our annual service of advent carols, prayers, hymns and readings. Non-ticketed and free to attend, this beautiful service is led by the Abbey Choir and the Vicar, Canon John Weetman. All are very welcome.
✨The service celebrates the beginning of Advent: a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the Nativity of Christ. The service takes its name from the famous Advent hymn, O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
✨The music at the service will include:
Matin Responsory (Palestrina)
Hymn: Come, thou Redeemer of the earth (Woodward/Willcocks)
The Great Advent Antiphons (Plainsong)
The Truth from Above (Vaughan Williams)
Adam lay y bounden (Ord)
How lovely are the messengers (Mendelssohn)
Hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry
A tender shoot (Goldschmidt)
Hymn: Of the Father’s heart begotten (arr. Willcocks)
Benedictus in C (Stanford)
Hymn: “Veni Emmanuel” O come, O come, Emmanuel (arr. Andrew Carter)
Vesper Responsory (Palestrina)
Hymn: Lo, he comes with clouds descending (arr. Willcocks)
Toccata “Vom himmel hoch” (Edmundson)