Lessons and Carols

monasteryliturgist

We are considering doing a "Lessons and Carols" in conjunction with our Annual Christmas Concert/ fundraiser this year for our Monastery but we have never done it. My understanding is that there is quasi-liturgical element to this but Im not sure where to look and how to put this together.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to make this work well/ resources. Thank you so much. God Bless.

Edit: specifically if anyone has old pdfs of programmes for example, or anything explaining the typical order of events.

32ContraBombarde

This will be our second year doing Lessons & Carols. I've attached the draft program (still a work in progress) for this year's festival. Don't consider it the "definitive Lessons & Carols." Just one example of how we've chosen to approach it at the parish level.

wren

Here is my parish's Lessons & Carols program, based on the original Anglican service as well as some previous readings/order of service collections I inherited from my predecessor. Since we do the program at least a week before Christmas, we keep it pretty Advent-y, and only do seven readings. I'm also happy to share our program template, etc...it took forever to put this all together so I'm happy to save someone else the time.

probe

Some background
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Lessons_and_Carols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_v6swwpPAI King's College Cambridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZAsBSnFlJw Blackburn

Marc Cerisier

FWIW, here's the USCCB page on the topic:
https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year-and-calendar/advent/festival-of-lessons-and-carols

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