Music – Hymns & Anthem for December 20

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This podcast episode features the hymns and anthem recorded by Dr. Dennis Keene and the Ascension Choir, featuring the Manton Memorial Organ, for the Church of the Ascension’s worship service on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 20, 2020, which took place online via Zoom.

      Hymns and Anthem - Advent IV - 2020 - The Church of the Ascension Choir; Dr. Dennis Keene
  1. Hymn #268 – Ye who claim the faith of Jesus (Julion)
  2. Hymn #56 – O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, Emmanuel) – verses 7-8
  3. Anthem – Magnificat in B-flat Major, by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
  4. Hymn #54 – Savior of the nations, come (Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland)
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In this week’s newsletter, Mother Liz celebrates the parish’s feast day with Malcolm Guite’s sonnet on the Ascension, exploring its paradoxes: ending and beginning, absence and presence, humanity and divinity. Jesus leaves the disciples to fill all things with even more profound intimacy, and it is his broken, still-wounded body—”the heart that broke for all the broken hearted”—that ascends to God’s heart. The rector invites us to sit with these mysteries during the “dazzling darkness” between Ascension and Pentecost, pondering how we are held and hidden with Christ while called to be his presence in a world of crisis, wonder, and grief.

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