Yesterday afternoon, we attended the Festival of Lessons and Carols, a worship service sponsored by the music department of one of our local colleges. The program was held in a little church that features a beautiful Dutch pipe organ. Folks from various denominations and walks of life participated, including a community flute choir, a guitarist, and solo singers.
The traditional English format for the service featured nine Christmas carols interspersed with nine readings from the Bible. This year's readings were: Genesis 3: 8-15; Genesis 22: 15-18; Isaiah 9: 2-7; Isaiah 11: 1-9; Luke 1: 26-38; Matthew 1: 18-23; Luke 2: 8-16; Matthew 2: 1-11, and John 1: 1-14.
The carols included "Once in Royal David's City," "O Come, O Come, Emmanual," "What Child is This?", "In The Bleak Midwinter," We Three Kings of Orient Are," and "Joy to the World," among others.
For more information about the Festival of Lessons and Carols tradition, go to http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/programs/festival.
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