With only a few days remaining before Christmas, I would urge you and remind you of the annual "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" broadcast from King's College, Cambridge. You can find it at
http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/classical/holidays/display/web/2012/12/24/a-festival-of-nine-lessons-and-carols
You might also wish to read a blog on why you should listen
http://thefederalist.com/2014/12/19/5-reasons-you-need-to-attend-a-lessons-and-carols-service-this-christmas/
Thanks for sharing George. I have not heard of this before but it looks interesting.
This has always been a Christmas Eve morning tradition in my family. Love it!
Thanks George. I, also have not heard of this. I made a note to check it out.
Thanks again.
I'm a big fan of choral music. Sounds good I put it on my calendar.
With only a few days remaining before Christmas, I would urge you and remind you of the annual "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" broadcast from King's College, Cambridge. You can find it at http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/classical/holidays/display/web/2012/12/24/a-festival-of-nine-lessons-and-carols You might also wish to read a blog on why you should listen http://thefederalist.com/2014/12/19/5-reasons-you-need-to-attend-a-lessons-and-carols-service-this-christmas/
The concept of lessons & carols adapts readily into your church's Christmas Eve worship service. As a wonderful source of inspiration for changing it each year, the King's College web site has pdf files of the program for numerous prior years.
Thanks for posting this, George. I hadn't thought to actually listen to one of their services, though I've enjoyed sharing their concept for about the last 10 years.
Thanks George
God Bless you always my Brother in Chris!
James
In case you happened to miss the live broadcast (perhaps the time difference made it difficult or you didn't feel like getting up early [shame on you! [;)] ], you can still hear the program for a limited time at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02f8l2j
In case you happened to miss the live broadcast (perhaps the time difference made it difficult or you didn't feel like getting up early [shame on you! ], you can still hear the program for a limited time at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02f8l2j
In case you happened to miss the live broadcast (perhaps the time difference made it difficult or you didn't feel like getting up early [shame on you! ], you can still hear the program for a limited time at
Thanks George. I got up early to listen to it but didn't get to listen to all of it as I had to run to Walmart with my mom to get last minute stuff.
God Bless you always my Brother in Christ!
I tuned in late but heard bits and snatches of it in between breakfast noises and conversation with my dad.
In addition to listening to the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols I like to read A Christmas Carol by Dickens. This year I found a wonderful old movie of the story. http://www.garynorth.com/public/13260.cfm It's near the bottom of the page. Enjoy !
This year I found a wonderful old movie of the story. http://www.garynorth.com/public/13260.cfm It's near the bottom of the page. Enjoy !
This is an amazing movie that is a classic. Our family tries to watch this most years. We watched half of it last night and the rest this morning.
With only a few days remaining before Christmas, I would urge you and remind you of the annual "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" broadcast from King's College, Cambridge.
This afternoon we watched a documentary about the sixty years since the Kings College Choir was first televised. It's the sort of programme that the BBC do really well. You can see it at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04w0vg5/carols-from-kings-60-years-of-carols-from-kings
Enjoy. And a happy Christmas to you and yours all around the world. Peace on earth and goodwill to men.
Every blessing
Alan
With only a few days remaining before Christmas, I would urge you and remind you of the annual "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" broadcast from King's College, Cambridge. This afternoon we watched a documentary about the sixty years since the Kings College Choir was first televised. It's the sort of programme that the BBC do really well. You can see it at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04w0vg5/carols-from-kings-60-years-of-carols-from-kings Enjoy. And a happy Christmas to you and yours all around the world. Peace on earth and goodwill to men. Every blessing Alan
Drat, drat, double drat—it's only available in the UK.
In addition to listening to the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols I like to read A Christmas Carol by Dickens.
Yay, I got to hear the repeat of the FoNLaC this afternoon at 3pm EST on WMHT, in its entirety, while I was cooking the Christmas ham at my parents' house:
And my brother played Scrooge this year in A Christmas Carol (the musical version of it). Fortunately he is not really a Scrooge. Am enjoying spending Christmas with him and my sister and her family and my parents.
The concept of lessons & carols adapts readily into your church's Christmas Eve worship service.
We've done a service of 9 lessons and carols for our Christmas eve service for 16 years (since 1998). People still say it's one of their favorites because it's still so meaningful. Of course we're no King's college, and we sing more traditional carols, but the lessons are mostly the same.
In addition to listening to the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols I like to read A Christmas Carol by Dickens. Yay, I got to hear the repeat of the FoNLaC this afternoon at 3pm EST on WMHT, in its entirety, while I was cooking the Christmas ham at my parents' house: And my brother played Scrooge this year in A Christmas Carol (the musical version of it). Fortunately he is not really a Scrooge. Am enjoying spending Christmas with him and my sister and her family and my parents.
Glad you had a nice Christmas and that ham looks really good!
