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Weekly Readings and Suggested Hymns for the Second Sunday of Advent:
"Pray Faithfully"
Light the Bethlehem Candle
(A litany for lighting Advent Wreath)
Today is the second Sunday in Advent,
We gather today to declare our loyalty to God's Rule.
Advent offers us another opportunity to get ready for the coming of God into our lives;
To draw near to the One in whom we have placed our trust;
To be profoundly changed.
We light this second candle
To remember the tender infant born in Bethlehem, who comes to meet us in answer to our faithful prayers.
God, help every heart prepare room for Jesus Christ.
We are FAITHFULLY PRAYING,
(unison:) "Be born in us today."
Sing:
Sing:
230 O Little Town of Bethlehem vs. 4
Featured Hymn
203 Hail to the Lord's Annointed
Scripture Theme Hymns
Malachi 3:1-4
The Appearance of God's Messenger;
God's Refining, Purifying Presence
The Day of the Lord is Awesome!
Malachi 3:1-4 (King James Version)
Malachi 3
1Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
2But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
3And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
422 Jesus, Thine All Victorious Love
384 Love Divine, All Love's Excelling
211 O Come, O Come, Emanuel vs. 1&2 *
Psalm 126
Almost Too Good to be True;
Restored Fortunes;
From Tears to Joy
Psalm 126 (King James Version)
Psalm 126
1When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
2Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
3The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
4Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
5They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
6He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Psalter 847 resp. 2
75 All People that on Earth Do Dwell
126 Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above
Luke 3:1-6
Prepare The Way!;
John as Herald of God's Salvation
Luke 3:1-6 (King James Version)
Luke 3
1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
2Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
3And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
6And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
207 Prepare the Way of the Lord
202 People Look East
210 Toda la Tierra
Phillipians 1:3-11
The Day of Christ;
Brought to Completion in Christ
Philippians 1:3-11 (King James Version)
3I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
475 Come Down, O Love Divine
733 Come, We that Love the Lord
732 Come, We that Love the Lord
161 Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart
160 Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart
Featured Hymn
203 Hail to the Lord's Annointed
Text: James Montgomery
Tune: ELLACOMBE
There is general agreement among hymnologists that this is James Montgomery's finest rendering of any of the Psalms. Written for a Christmas Day convocation of Moravians in 1821, it was later read by its author at the close of a missionary meeting in a Wesleyan Chapel where Dr. Adam Clarke was presiding.
Dr. Clarke was so impressed with the excellence of Montgomery's paraphrase of Psalm 72 that he asked permission to include it in his forthcoming Commentary. It appears at the end of Dr. Clarke's exposition of Psalm 72, with the following effusive preface:
The following poetical version of some of the principal passages of the foregoing Psalm was made and kindly given me by my much respected friend, James Montgomery, Esq., of Sheffield. I need not tell the intelligent reader that he has seized the spirit, and exhibited some of the principal beauties, of the Hebrew bard; though, to use his own words in his letter to me, his "hand trembled to touch the harp of Zion." I take the liberty here to register a wish, which I have strongly expressed to himself, that he would favour [sic] the Church of God with a metrical version of the whole book."
Then follows all eight of the orginal stanzas.
It is instructive to compare Montgomery's paraphrase of Psalm 72 with Isaac Watts' version of 1719 (nearly 100 years earlier): 157 Jesus Shall Reign. Montgomery has stuck less closely to the text than did Watts. Obviously Montgomery absorbed from the Psalm the essential intent of the Psalmist as he saw it and then proceeded to create his own imagery -- imagery that makes his rendition the one that is suitable for singing during Advent.
The hymn entered American Methodist hymnals in 1847. Usually the same 4 stanzas in current use have been printed. They are 1, 2, 4 and a final stanza composed of the first half of 7 and the last half of 8.
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Additional Suggestion for using 211 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
For a ritual to light the Advent Wreath read Antiphon 1 (opposite hymn) then sing verse 1 and refrain. Light first candle. Read Antiphon 4, sing verse 4 and refrain. Light second candle. Read Antiphon 2, sing verse 2 and refrain.
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Passages suggested are from The Revised Common Lectionary: Consultation on Common Texts (Abingdon Press, 1992) copyright © by the Consultation on Common Texts (CCT), P.O. Box 340003, Room 381, Nashville TN 37203-0003. Reprinted with permission of CCT.
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