Choir Boy: Reverend Sir, we bring you the gifts of the friends of the Children’s Society

and Barnardo’s. On their behalf I ask you to receive these gifts and offer them to
God for the work of these Societies.

Minister: Accept,O Lord, at our hands, these gifts, the tokens of our will to serve you
and our fellow men, and use these gifts and our obedience to make known to
your children and your people your compassion and your mercy declared in your
WOODLEIGH SCHOOL
Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

We hope that every child will come forward to receive a Christingle which represents:

The World THE

CAROL SERVICE
The Light of the World
The Fruits of the Earth
The Blood of Christ

WEDNESDAY, 15th DECEMBER, 2004 at 3.30 p.m.

THE BLESSING

Silent night, sacred night, Silent night,sacred night,

Bethlehem sleeps, yet what light Shepherds first see the light,
Floats around the holy pair; Hear the hallelujahs ring
Songs of angels fill the air - Which the angel chorus sing:
Strains of heavenly peace, Christ the Saviour is come,
Strains of heavenly peace. Christ the Saviour is come.

Silent night, sacred night,

Son of God, O what light
BIRDSALL CHURCH
Radiates from Thy manger bed
Over realms with darkness spread -
Thou in Bethlehem born,
Thou in Bethlehem born.
 There will be a collection for Barnardo’s and the Children’s Society
Will visitors stand and join in the singing of the carols and the verses of the *CAROL
hymns marked thus *
HYMN In the bleak mid-winter Enough for Him, whom cherubim
Frosty wind made moan. Worship night and day,
Once in Royal David’s City And through all His wondrous Earth stood hard as iron, A heartful of love,
Stood a lowly cattle shed childhood water like a stone: And a mangerful of hay;
Where a mother laid her baby He would honour and obey, Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Enough for Him, whom angels
In a manger for his bed; Love and watch the lowly Maiden, Snow on snow, Fall down before,
Mary was that Mother mild, In whose gentle arms He lay: In the bleak mid-winter, The ox and ass and camel
Jesus Christ her little Child. Christian children all must be Long ago. Which adore.
Mild, obedient, good as He.
Our God, heaven cannot hold Him, Angels and archangels
nor earth sustain; May have gathered there,
He came down to earth from Heaven *For He is our childhood pattern;
Heaven and earth shall flee away Cherubim and seraphim
Who is God and Lord of all, Day by day like us He grew.
When He comes to reign; Thronged the air -
And His shelter was a stable; He was little weak and helpless,
In the bleak mid-winter But only His mother
And His cradle was a stall; Tears and smiles like us He knew;
A stable-place sufficed In her maiden bliss
With the poor, and mean, and lowly And He feeleth for our sadness,
The Lord God Almighty, Worshipped the Beloved
Lived on earth our Saviour Holy. And He shareth in our gladness.
Jesus Christ. With a kiss.

*And our eyes at last shall see Him, What can I give Him,
Through His own redeeming love, Poor as I am?
For that child so dear and gentle If I were a shepherd
Is our Lord in Heaven above; I would bring a lamb;
And He leads His children on If I were a wise man
To the place where He is gone I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give Him -
Give my heart
BIDDING PRAYER
*CONCLUDING HYMN
THE ANNUNCIATION
Reading: St. Luke I 26-33 KARAN SUBEDI Christ by highest heaven adored,
CAROL Christ the everlasting Lord,
Late in time behold him come
Love came down at Christmas, Worship we the Godhead, Offspring of the Virgin’s womb;
Hark! The herald angels sing Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
love all lovely, Love divine; love incarnate, Love divine; Glory to the new born King; Hail the incarnate Deity!
love was born at Christmas, worship we our Jesus: Peace on earth and mercy mild, Pleased as man with man to dwell
star and angels give the sign. but wherewith for sacred sign? God and sinners reconciled: Jesus our Emmanuel.
Joyful all ye nations rise,
Join the triumph of the skies, Hail the heaven born Prince of Peace!
Love shall be our token, With the angelic host proclaim,
love be yours and love be mine, Hail the Son of Righteousness!
Christ is born in Bethlehem. Light and life to all he brings,
Love to God and all men, Hark! The herald angels sing
love for plea and gift and sign. Risen with healing in his wings;
Glory to the new born King. Mild He lays His glory by
Born that man no more may die,
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
 THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
Reading: I John IV 7-14 JOE STEVENSON THE BIRTH
Reading: St. Luke II 1-7 HEATHER W ATSON
*HYMN CAROL

O come, all ye faithful,
Joyful and triumphant;
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem:
Come and behold Him
Born the king of angels:
O come, let us adore Him, Christ the
Lord.
God of God,
Light of Light,
Lo, He abhors not the virgin’s womb:
Very God
Begotten, not created:
O come, let us adore Him, Christ the
Lord.
See how the shepherds,
Summoned to His cradle,
Leaving their flocks, draw nigh to gaze;
We too will thither
Bend our joyful footsteps:
O come, let us adore Him, Christ the
Lord.
Sing, choirs of angels,
Sing in exultation,
Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above.
Glory to God
In the highest!
O come, let us adore Him, Christ the
Lord.
The Storke she rose on Christmas eve Nowe where is he of David’s line
And sayde unto her broode, She asked at house and halle,
I nowe must far to Bethlehem He is not here, they spoke hardly
To view the sonne of God. But in a mangier stalle.
She gave to eche his dole of mete She found him in a mangier stalle
She stowed them farely in With that most Holy Mayde
And far she flew and fast she flew The gentle storke she wept to see
And came to Bethlehem. The Lord so rudely layde.
Then from her panting breast she plucked
The feathers white and warm,
She strewed them in the mangier bed
To keep the Lord from harm.
‘Nowe blessed be the gentle storke
Forevermore,’ quoth he
‘For that she saw my sadde estate
And showed such pity.

Full welcome shall she ever be

In Hamlet and in halle
And called henceforth the blessed bird
And friend of babies all.’

THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS

Reading: St. John I 1-14 TOBY W ILLIAMS
 THE ANGELS
Reading: St. Luke II 8-14
CAROL
A stable lamp is lighted
whose glow shall wake the sky;
the stars shall bend their voices,
and every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry,
and straw like gold shall shine;
a barn shall harbour heaven,
a stall become a shrine.
This Child through David’s city
shall ride in triumph by;
the palm shall strew its branches,
and every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry,
though heavy, dull and dumb,
and lie within the roadway
to pave God’s kingdom come.
Yet he shall be forsaken
THE SHEPHERDS
Reading: St. Luke II 15-20
*HYMN
While shepherds watch’d their flocks by
night,
All seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came down
And glory shone around.
‘Fear not’, said he; for mighty dread
Had seized their troubled mind;
‘Glad tidings of great joy I bring
To you and all mankind’.
‘To you in David’s town this day
Is born of David’s line
A Saviour, who is Christ the Lord;
And this shall be the sign:
The heavenly Babe you there shall find
ROBERT CAWOOD
and yielded up to die;
the sky shall groan and darken,
and every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry,
for stony hearts he’s slain;
God’s blood upon the spear-head,
God’s love refused again.
But now as at the ending
the low is lifted high:
the stars shall bend their voices,
and every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry,
in praises of the Child
by whose descent among us
the worlds are reconciled.
LOUIS HOWARTH
To human view displayed,
All meanly wrapped in swathing bands
And in a manger laid’.
Thus spake the seraph; and forthwith
Appeared a shining throng
Of angels praising God, who thus
Addressed their joyful song:
‘All glory be to God on high,
And to the earth be peace;
Goodwill henceforth, from Heaven to men
Begin and never cease.
THE W ISE MEN
Reading: St. Matthew II 1,2,7-11 RORY DUDGEON
CAROL
Lully, lulla,
thou little tiny Child,
by by, lully lullay.
O sisters, too, Herod the king,
how may we do in his raging,
for to preserve this day; charged he hath this day
this poor youngling, his men of might,
for whom we do sing, in his own sight,
by by, lully lullay? all children young, to slay.
That woe is me,
poor child for thee!
and ever morn and day;
for thy parting
neither say nor sing,
by by, lully lullay!
Lully, lulla,
thou little tiny Child,
by by, lully lullay.
THE PROMISE
Reading: Isaiah IX 2,6,7 CHARLOTTE MILNER
CAROL
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
let earth receive her King;
let every heart prepare him room,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven, and heaven and nature
sing.
Joy to the world, the Saviour reigns! He rules the world with truth and grace,
let all their songs employ; and makes the nations prove
while fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, the glories of his righteousness
repeat the sounding joy, and wonders of his love,
repeat the sounding joy, and wonders of his love,
repeat, repeat the sounding joy. and wonders, wonders of his love.