What hymns are you using for Advent?
  • Earl_GreyEarl_Grey
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    It actually appears in Worship III in the Christmas section. I think it works for Advent as well. It's very similar to Wachet Auf (same author) and there are many different versions of the text. The original has 7 stanzas I think, but typically only a few appear in hymnals. I'm planning to use it for a big Mass on the feast of St. Lucy. I thought the imagery work well for the feast of a Virgin Martyr. Since I used Wachet auf for St. Cecelia, I thought I would try this one for Lucy.

    I had planned on using the version that appears in Worship III, but since it not available as a download, I had to write it out and since that version of the text is copyrighted, I used another composite translation that I found on the web. The translation used in the New Oxford Book of Carols (only in the big one, not the shorter version) is quite good, but again copyrighted. This one seemed the best singing translation of all the ones I found in the public domain. I'd be interested though if anyone else has a better one.

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    Well I tired uploading the file, but it didn't work. I'll have to do it from my other computer if anyone is interested.

    Here's a link to the text: http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/h/l/s/hlstmstar.htm
  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    Did you see this score?

    Thanked by 1expeditus1
  • artdob
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    Hymn and chant selections from the First Sunday of Advent 2016:
    -Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
    -Lauda Sion
    -Ubi Caritas
    -Bone Pastor (Palestrina)
    -Savior of the Nations Come
    http://azurehillsmusic.com/first-sunday-advent-2016/
  • CharlesW
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    The ones in the Advent section of the Ritual Song hymnal? What else? Actually, they are the standard Advent hymns found nearly everywhere.


  • Kathy
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    Mike Lawrence and I have a hymn in St Michael IV, Awake, O Lyre and Harp.
  • matthewjmatthewj
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    Advent I:
    ST THOMAS, The Advent of our King
    HELMSLEY, Lo He Comes with...

    Advent II:
    EN VOX CLARA, Hark a Mystic Voice...
    WINCHESTER NEW, On Jordan's Bank

    Advent III:
    DARWALL'S 148th, Rejoice the Lord is King
    STUTTGART, Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

    Advent IV:
    DEO GRATIAS, Dear Maker of the Starry Skies
    VENEZ DIVIN MESSIE, O Come Divine Messiah

    CONDITOR ALME and VENI EMMANUEL are interspersed throughout the weeks either chorally or as a hymn.
    Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
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    I once used a verse of Veni Emmanuel as the first part of music before Mass for Christmas Midnight.
  • Bobby Bolin
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    1- The Advent of Our King
    2- On Jordan's Bank
    3- Creator of the Stars
    4- The King Shall Come

    O Come, O Come Emmanuel throughout
  • artdob
    Posts: 24
    Hymn and chant selections for 2nd Sunday of Advent:
    Creator of the stars of night
    Veni Redemptor Gentium
    Ave Vera Virginitas
    Rotate Coeli
    Hark a Herald Voice is Calling
    http://azurehillsmusic.com/second-sunday-advent-2016/
  • NihilNominisNihilNominis
    Posts: 1,023
    Mainly:

    The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns (MORNING SONG)
    The Advent of Our King (ST THOMAS [WILLIAMS])
    Like a Shepherd
    Creator of the Stars of Night
    O Come Divine Messiah
    Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
    On Jordan's Bank
    O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

    Working to add:

    Comfort, Comfort Ye (choir just learned Goudimel's motet setting of this)
    The Angel Gabriel

  • RomanticStringsRomanticStrings
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    Since I no longer direct a program, personally, I sing the refrain of the chant Rorate coeli desuper when I am reminded of the season and need a quick musical reflection.
  • JL
    Posts: 171
    I was getting nervous when I got to the bottom of the first page and no one had mentioned HELMSLEY. It wouldn't be Advent without the deep-sea whaling...

    WACHET AUF is also an Advent necessity for me, but I have yet to find a really good English version. Winkworth is almost but not quite, and Daw is even less almost. The complex imagery and the metrical structure that doesn't appear anywhere else make it difficult, but maybe someone here knows where the ultimate translation is? (Or maybe has written it?)

    We Catholics really ought to take up BEREDEN VAG FOR HERRAN, which the Lutherans sing so well (usually as "Prepare the way, O Zion") and even the Episcopalians have adopted. (It's in the 1982, though I prefer the version in the mid-fifties Lutheran hymnal.) It's catchy and easy to sing, and, I would venture, even better than VENEZ DIVIN MESSIE. Maybe next year...
    Thanked by 1MarkS
  • Jani
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    Me and my little group sang this past Sunday. I always sing on the 2nd Sunday of Advent so we can sing A Voice Cries Out. We also sing Fr. Chepponis' Come, Come, Emmanuel which everyone loves. This year we sang our first TRI-lingual mass....... half way through the Holy, my daughter and I inexplicably switched from English to Latin. By the time we were done, it felt as though we had awoken from a trance. :)
  • artdob
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    Gaudete Sunday Selections:
    -O Come O Come Emmanuel
    -Veni Redemptor Gentium
    -Ave Maris Stella
    -Ave Maira chant
    -On Jordan’s Bank
    http://azurehillsmusic.com/gaudete-sunday-2016/
    twitter: @azurehillsmusic
  • expeditus1
    Posts: 483
    Gaudete Sunday (also the feast of Mary, Queen of the Angels):

    Preludes:
    - The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came
    - Rejoice! Virgin Theotokos
    - Verbum Supernum Prodiens (forum member CGM's English version)
    Processional: Queen of Angels
    Offertory: Omni Die Dic Mariae (chant)
    Communion:
    _ Quemadmodum Disederat
    - O Virgo Pulcherrima (chant)
    - Angelus ad Virginem
    Recessional: O Come Divine Messiah

  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    GAUDETE AT WALSINGHAM -

    Pontifical High Mass - 11.15am

    Voluntary - Nun komm der Heiden Heiland - - - J.S. Bach

    Processional Hymn - 'O come, O come, Emmanuel - - - Veni Emmanuel

    Propers - AUG
    Psalm - Anglican Chant, John Randall
    Ordinary - Cum jubilo

    Offertory Motet - 'Rejoice in the Lord alway' - - - Anonymous English

    Communion Anthem - 'Come my way, my truth, my light' - - - H. Friedell
    Communion Hymn - 'Creator of the stars of night' - - - Conditor alme siderum

    Hymn at the Dismissal - 'Rejoice, rejoice, believers' - - - Greenland

    Voluntary - Nun komm der Heiden Heiland - - - J.S. Bach

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    Advent Lessons and Carols - Bishop Lopes, Officiant - 4.00pm

    Organ Voluntary - Noel X Grand jeu et duo - - - Louis-Claude d'Aquin

    The Matin Responsory - G.P. da Palestrina
    Processional Hymn - 'O come, O come, Emmanuel' - - - Veni Emmanuel

    Anthem - 'This is the truth sent from above' - - - R. Vaughan Williams

    I. Carol - 'Adam lay ybounden' - - -Peter Warlock

    II. Carol - Rorate caeli - - - Leo Nestor

    III. Carol - 'Let all mortal flesh keep silence' - - - Arr., Stephen Cleobury
    Hymn - 'Creator of the stars of night' - - - Conditor alme siderum

    IV. Carol - 'A spotless rose' - - - Herbert Howells

    V. Carol - Ave Maria - - - Simon Lindley
    Carol - Gaudete omnes - - - Hieronymus Praetorius

    VI. Hymn - 'Hark! A thrilling voice is sounding' - - - Merton

    VII. Carol - 'All this time' - - - William Walton
    Carol - 'Zion, at thy shining gates' - - - Arr., George Guest

    Closing Hymn - 'Lo! he comes with clouds descending' - - - Helmsley

    Organ Voluntary - Toccata on Veni Emmanuel - - - Andrew Carter

    Participating Choirs     -
    The Cathedral Choir
    The Treble Choir (Grade School Youth)
    Chorus Angelorum (Semi-professional resident evensong choir)
  • RPBurke
    Posts: 25
    For our one Mass in Advent at the campus ministry where I assist students (and played for Christ the King), the opening hymn was "On Jordan's Bank" and closing was "O Come O Come Emmanuel." The first directly tied to Advent 2A, the second as it was familiar. Psalm from Respond & Acclaim, gospel acclamation from Taizé.
  • moderntradmoderntrad
    Posts: 50
    Advent I
    Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
    Lift Up Your Heads Ye Mighty Gates

    Advent II
    On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
    We Praise Thee, O God/Te Deum (that week we were given a bishop who - hopefully - won't treat us like pariahs...)

    Advent III
    Creator of the Stars of Night
    Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending

    Advent IV
    O Come, O Come Emmanuel (v. 1-3)
    O Come, O Come Emmanuel (v. 4-7)
  • artdob
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    Advent IV
    Veni Veni Emmanuel
    Creator Alme Siderum
    Rorate Coeli
    Ave Maris Stella
    People Look East
    http://azurehillsmusic.com/fourth-sunday-of-advent-2016/
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,415
    At Walsingham this Advent IV morning we sang the Advent Prose (Rorate Caeli) in procession in place of the normal processional hymn. This is nice! Try it sometime. We also did this on Advent Sunday.

    Though the US BCP and DW:TM both have '... raise up, we pray thee, thy power...' in the collect of the day, the old English BCPs had/have '...stir up...', which gave rise to the historic reference to Advent IV as 'stirrup Sunday'.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • a_f_hawkins
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    Christmas pudding takes time to mature, and stir up sunday is the last Sunday before Advent, in both the 1662 BCP (Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord ...) and the 1962 Missale Romanum (Excita quaesumus Domine ...).
    indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus
    Thanked by 2M. Jackson Osborn CHGiffen
  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    Thanks, Mr Hawkins, something told me that I was mistaken about that! 'Oh, they just had to change that' was my immediate reaction when I heard '...raise up...' this morning.

    But, tell me: what is the connexion with Christmas pudding? Christmas pudding is quite popular over here. One can get Tiptree's at a better grocer's or the local British import for around $30-35. It comes in a nice red box and includes an ironstone bowl in which to steam it.
  • a_f_hawkins
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    Popular rumour is that the rural populace took this collect as a cue for preparing their christmas pudding. Ginger, brandy and nutmeg or cinnamon would require an expensive outlay in a big town, probably jointly with some neighbours. And after all the chopping and mixing, steam it for eight hours, re-wrap and leave for the length of Advent in a cool dry place. History of cooking is however less well documented than liturgy. It is the takeover of that Sunday by the celebration of Christ the King that has confused the issue, though the CofE has it now as a Post-Communion, with optional use as a collect on following weekdays.
    Thanked by 2M. Jackson Osborn CHGiffen
  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    Well... it does make sense, doesn't it: Stir up!
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
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    Somehow, I can't help wondering if "Hagan Lio" encourages the same thing in, say, members of the the episcopal class?
  • Liam
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    "Popular rumour is that the rural populace"

    Being English (this an British custom) and having heard the collect aloud in English after the prayer book got Englished during the Late Unpleasantness....
  • JL
    Posts: 171
    One of the Stir-up Sunday traditions of which I have read (and used once, when I had roommates) is that each member of the household stirs the pudding mix once or twice, the head of the household (or the cook) prays the collect for the Third Sunday of Advent over it, and then it goes into the cloth and onto the stove. (There was also a cat in the house, but she was not allowed to stir anything.)

    This year, pudding is postponed until Twelfth Night, so I'll be starting it (alone) on Boxing Day when I have a day off.
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