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Advent Lessons & Carols
December 10, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
During Advent in early December, a “Festival of Lessons and Carols” service is held at Hickory Neck. This service provides an opportunity to gather as a community and celebrate the seasonal music, readings, and prayers of the Advent season. In the old English liturgies, the Advent services made a vivid preparation for the coming of the Lord, Jesus Christ. From the beginnings of Israel, through the period of the New Testament and then the Middle Ages, people repeatedly took up the same language and used it afresh to speak of their own experience of life in separation from God, their experience of God’s mercy, and the expectations to which those experiences gave rise. Our Advent Lessons and Carols today draw on the varied associations of this repeated use. You are invited into prayerful consideration of the rich language, images, and story found in the Lessons and Carols and in the periods of silence you will find throughout the service. Enjoy this unique service as part of your Advent journey. Join us on Sunday, December 10 at 10:00am in the New Chapel, or livestream on our YouTube channel or website.