Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent: December 22, 2019

Opening Voluntary Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (Jefferson)     

setting, Edwin T. Childs

See the tune and text at Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) ELW 254.

Gathering Hymn People, Look East (Besançon)

ELW 248

Hymn of the Day The Night Will Soon Be Ending (Llangloffan)

This hymn is not in ELW. The text is by Jochen Klepper, a German journalist and poet who was married to a Jewish woman. Upon realizing he could not protect his wife or stepdaughters during Hitler’s regime Klepper, his wife, and youngest stepdaughter, Renate, committed suicide. An older daughter, Brigitte, escaped to England. Read more here: https://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biographies/index_of_persons/biographie/view-bio/jochen-klepper/?no_cache=1

Night in Asheville, NC

Musical Offering As the Dark Awaits the Dawn

Carl Schalk

Text by Susan Palo Cherwien

This is a choral setting of ELW 261.

Communion Hymn He Comes to Us as One Unknown (Repton)

ELW 737

Sending Hymn Joy to the World, the Lord Is Come (Antioch)

ELW 267

Closing Voluntary O Day of Peace that Dimly Shines (Jerusalem)

setting, Mark Sedio