CITY OF GOD (Sunday 9am & 5pm)
Awake from your slumber, arise from your sleep
a new day is dawning for all those who weep.
The people in darkness have seen a great light.
The Lord of our longing has conquered the night.
Refrain
Let us build the city of God.
May our tears be turned into dancing!
For the Lord, our light and our love,
has turned the night into day!
We're sons of themorning, we are daughters of day.
The One who has loved us has brightened our way.
The Lord of all kindness has called us to be
a light for His people to set their hearts free. Refrain
God is light; in Him there is no darkness.
Let us walk in His light, His children, one and all.
O comfort my people; make gentle your words.
Proclaim to my city the day of her birth. Refrain
Text: Based on Isaiah 9;40: 1-9. Text & Music: ©1981, OCP. Contributors: Dan Schutte. Reprinted under One License #A640714. All rights reserved.
LO HOW A ROSE E’ER BLOOMING (Sunday 9am)
Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
From tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse's lineage coming
As men of old have sung.
It came, a flower bright,
Amid the cold of winter
When half-gone was the night.
Isaiah 'twas foretold it,
The Rose I have in mind:
With Mary we behold it,
The virgin mother kind.
To show God's love aright
She bore to men a Savior
When half-gone was the night.
This Flower, whose fragrance tender
With sweetness fills the air,
Dispels with glorious splendour
The darkness everywhere.
True man, yet very God,
From sin and death He saves us
And lightens every load.
Text based on Isaiah 11:1; Traditional German Carol, 15th century; tr. By Theodore Baker, 1851-1934, alt. Music: Alte Catholische GeistlicheKirchengesänge, Cologne, 1599. Reprinted under One License #A640714. All rights reserved.
PREPARE YE (Sunday 5pm)
Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
prepare ye the way of the Lord. (Repeat)
Music and text: Stephen Schwartz. © 1971 Range Road Music, Inc, Herald Square Music Company & New Cadenza Music Corporation . Used by permission Christian Copyright Solutions WORSHIPcast License #12688. All rights reserved.
HOSANNA (Sunday 9am)
I see the King of glory
coming on the clouds with fire.
The whole earth shakes.
The whole earth shakes;
I see his love and mercy,
washing over all our sin.
The people sing,
the people sing.
Refrain
Hosanna, Hosanna,
Hosanna in the highest.
Hosanna, Hosanna,
Hosanna in the highest.
I see a generation,
rising up to take their place.
With selfless faith,
with selfless faith.
I see a new revival
stirring as we pray and seek.
We’re on our knees,
we're on our knees. Refrain
Heal my heart and make it clean.
Open up my eyes to the things unseen.
Show me how to love like You
have loved me.
Break my heart for what breaks Yours.
Everything I am
for Your Kingdom’s cause.
As I walk from earth into eternity. Refrain
Music & Text: Brooke Ligertwood. Reprinted under CCLI License #356485. All rights reserved.
LO! HE COMES WITH CLOUDS DESCENDING (Sunday 9am)
Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
once for salvation slain;
thousand thousands saints attending,
swell the triumph of His train:
Alleluia! alleluia! alleluia!
Christ the Lord returns to reign.
Ev’ry eye shall now behold Him
robed in dreadful majesty;
those who set at naught and sold Him,
pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
shall the true Messiah see.
Contributor: Charles Wesley. Text: © 1982 Concordia Publishing House. Reprinted under One License #A640714. All rights reserved.
PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD (Sunday 5pm)
There was a man of God whose name was John.
He came to speak for the Light.
The voice of one in the wilderness.
Prepare the way of the Lord.
Chorus
Prepare the way of the Lord
Prepare the way of the Lord
Prepare the way of the Lord
Prepare the way of the Lord
Mountains and hills shall be brought to ground.
The winding paths be straightened.
And all mankind shall see his face;
Prepare the way of the Lord. Chorus
He’s the Lamb of God and you must follow him.
Who takes the sin of the world,
For he has come to give you life;
Prepare the way of the Lord. Chorus
(Repeat)
Based on Isaiah 40:3 and Luke 3:4. Music and text: Brian Boniwell. © Spectrum Publications. Reprinted under One License #A640714. All rights reserved.
LO! HE COMES WITH CLOUDS DESCENDING (Sunday 5pm)
Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
once for salvation slain;
thousand thousands saints attending,
swell the triumph of His train:
Alleluia! alleluia! alleluia!
Christ the Lord returns to reign.
Ev’ry eye shall now behold Him
robed in dreadful majesty;
those who set at naught and sold Him,
pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
shall the true Messiah see.
Contributor: Charles Wesley. Text: © 1982 Concordia Publishing House. Reprinted under One License #A640714. All rights reserved.
O COME, O COME EMMANUEL (Sunday 9am & 5pm)
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
and ransom captive Israel,
that mourns in lonely exile here,
until the Son of God appear.
Refrain
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come to you, O Israel.
O come, true wisdom from on high,
and order all things far and nigh:
to us the path of knowledge show
and teach us in her ways to go. Refrain
O come, O come, great Lord of might;
in ancient times of Sinai’s height
You gave Your chosen tribes the law,
in cloud and majesty and awe. Refrain
O come, the branch of Jesse,
free Your children from all tyranny;
from depths of hell Your people save
and give them vict’ry o’er the grave. Refrain
Text: LM with refrain; ‘O’ Antiphons, Latin 9th cent.; tr by John Mason Neale, 1818-1866. Music: Chant VENI EMMANUEL, French, 15th cent.; adapt by Thomas Helmore, 1811-1890. Reprinted under One License #A640714. All rights reserved.
