Advent Procession of Lessons & Carols with the Cathedral Schola

Name: Advent Procession of Lessons & Carols with the Cathedral Schola
Start: 2024-12-01T16:00:00-06:00
Location: 127 NW 7th St, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, Oklahoma 73102

Schedule

Sun Dec 01 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

127 NW 7th St, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, Oklahoma 73102 | Oklahoma City, OK

A Procession of Lessons & Carols with the Cathedral Schola
Welcome the sacred season of Advent with a beautiful service of Lessons and Carols, featuring the Schola of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral. The Advent Procession is a celebration of the good news of the coming of Jesus Christ into the world. Historically, the Advent service is a movement from darkness to light, mirroring the journey of the human race from the darkness of sorrow and death into the light of Christ’s dawning Kingdom of justice and joy. The service will begin in darkness as the Choir sings the Advent Prose. As the great Advent Antiphons and words of scripture proclaim the coming of a new King of Love, the light gradually dawns as more and more candles are lit, until the Cathedral is filled with the light and hope of Christ’s promised return. The main direction of movement in an Advent procession has traditionally been from the West towards the East because looking to the East is symbolic of keeping watch for the coming Kingdom of God.
This central theme of the Advent service is reinforced by the words of the Advent Antiphons which were traditionally sung in the days leading up to Christmas. Each antiphon calls Christ to return by one of his prophetic titles ‘O wisdom, O root of Jesse, O Key of David - come!’ They build up into a poignant cry for help on behalf of all the suffering people in the world. The first letters of each antiphon’s title for Christ in Latin, when reversed, form the Latin phrase: ERO CRAS. ‘Tomorrow I will be there.’ It is as if Christ is responding to his people's desperate cries and reminding us that he is truly coming. ‘Even so, come Lord Jesus.’
(Description credited to Truro Cathedral)