Advent Sunday, 29th November at 6.30pm ✨ ✨ ✨ “VENI EMMANUEL” ✨ ✨ ✨ Join us at Selby Abbey for “Veni Emmanuel”, our annual service of advent carols, prayers, hymns and readings. Non-ticketed and free to attend, this beautiful service is led by the Abbey Choir and the Vicar, Canon John Weetman. All are very welcome. ✨The service celebrates the beginning of Advent: a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the Nativity of Christ. The service takes its name from the famous Advent hymn, O Come, O Come Emmanuel. ✨The music at the service will include: Matin Responsory (Palestrina) Hymn: Come, thou Redeemer of the earth (Woodward/Willcocks) The Great Advent Antiphons (Plainsong) The Truth from Above (Vaughan Williams) Adam lay y bounden (Ord) How lovely are the messengers (Mendelssohn) Hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry A tender shoot (Goldschmidt) Hymn: Of the Father’s heart begotten (arr. Willcocks) Benedictus in C (Stanford) Hymn: “Veni Emmanuel” O come, O come, Emmanuel (arr. Andrew Carter) Vesper Responsory (Palestrina) Hymn: Lo, he comes with clouds descending (arr. Willcocks) Toccata “Vom himmel hoch” (Edmundson)

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