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The Springwater Bicentennial Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols |
Festival program is shown below. |
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The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Springwater United Methodist Church Sunday, 18 December 2016, at 5 p.m. Submitted by Herb Tinney
The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols will be presented in the United Methodist Church in Springwater, and the entire community (and visitors) are cordially invited to attend. The service, which is non-denominational, will trace the Coming of Christ in both Old and New Testament readings, with traditional Christmas hymns and carols sung by the entire gathering of the people. The lessons, and the opening and closing prayers, will be read by clergy and laypersons from the entire Springwater community. Silent pageant displays (creche scenes, shepherds, wise men, etc.) by both adults and children will accompany the readings. The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, now celebrated during the Christmas season in Christian churches of many denominations in countries all over the world where Christianity exists, had its humble beginnings in the late 1800s in the homes of “gentlemen of the choir” of what is now the Anglican cathedral of Truro, in England. The cathedral, then only a wooden shed (the present cathedral at Truro had yet to be built), had begun a choir of men and boys, and a social tradition developed that on Christmas Eve: each year men of the choir gathered in one of their homes earlier in the evening, before the Christmas Eve Mass, and sang favorite Christmas carols and hymns. As that tradition grew, so grew the number of family members and friends who joined in the carol-sings. That tradition was then moved to the cathedral itself (small as it was), and became a traditional prelude to the midnight Christmas Mass. The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, as it became known, has spread throughout the cathedrals and parish churches of England and beyond, both in the worldwide Anglican Communion, and in other denominations, with surprisingly little basic variation. The main theme of the nine lessons, from both the Old and New Testaments, is “...the development of the loving purposes of God, seen through the windows and words of the Bible. The pattern and strength of the service derive from the lessons, and not the music.” (The Reverend Eric Milner-White, 1884- 1963, WW-I soldier and, later, Dean of York Minster).
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