A Service of Nine Lessons and Carols for Epiphanytide

Name: A Service of Nine Lessons and Carols for Epiphanytide
Start: 2025-01-19T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-19T18:15:00-05:00
Location: Christ Church

Schedule

Sun Jan 19 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:15 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Christ Church | Washington, DC

We invite you, your family, friends, and neighbors to join us for the third annual Service of Nine Lessons and Carols for Epiphanytide, sung by the combined professional choirs of Christ Church, Georgetown, and Saint John's Church, Lafayette Square. Choral and congregational music will include:
Matin Responsory - adapted from G. P. da Palestrina
Hymn in Procession: O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness - Was lebet
Carol: O Radiant Dawn, from The Strathclyde Motets - James MacMillan
Hymn: Brightest and best of the stars of the morning - Morning Star
Carol: We three kings - arr. Martin Neary
Carol: Coventry Carol - arr. B. E. Boykin
Hymn: He is the Way - Hall
Carol: Nunc dimittis, from Gradualia I - William Byrd
Carol: Take me to the water - Traditional Spiritual, arr. Alice Parker
Hymn: All praise to you, O Lord - Carlisle
Carol: O nata lux de lumine - Lucy Walker
Anthem at the Offering: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Air and Chorus), from Messiah - George Frideric Handel
Vesper Responsory - adapted from Palestrina
Hymn in Procession: Songs of thankfulness and praise - Salzburg
A festive reception will follow. All are welcome.