Join us for an all-campus worship service Mon., Dec. 19, 2016, at 5:45 p.m. in the Hicks Chapel as we prepare to celebrate once again the Nativity of our Lord Jesus and look with hope for Christ’s return. “All Creation Waits with Eager Longing” features choral and instrumental music, congregational singing, and readings by PTS faculty, staff, and students.

The tradition of an Advent Lessons and Carols service was established at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, in 1934. Sixteen years after the now famous Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve was first sung by the Chapel’s choir, the dean of the chapel composed a service based on the pre-Reformation Advent Offices of the English Church. The service was “. . . not to celebrate Christmas, but to expect it.” The readings of our Advent Lessons and Carols service, moving from the prophets’ announcement of God’s promise of salvation to Christ’s proclamation of God’s reign, are taken from that “Procession with Carols on Advent Sunday.”

 

Join us for an all-campus worship service Mon., Dec. 19, 2016, at 5:45 p.m. in the Hicks Chapel as we prepare to celebrate once again the Nativity of our Lord Jesus and look with hope for Christ’s return. “All Creation Waits with Eager Longing” features choral and instrumental music, congregational singing, and readings by PTS faculty, staff, and students.

The tradition of an Advent Lessons and Carols service was established at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, in 1934. Sixteen years after the now famous Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve was first sung by the Chapel’s choir, the dean of the chapel composed a service based on the pre-Reformation Advent Offices of the English Church. The service was “. . . not to celebrate Christmas, but to expect it.” The readings of our Advent Lessons and Carols service, moving from the prophets’ announcement of God’s promise of salvation to Christ’s proclamation of God’s reign, are taken from that “Procession with Carols on Advent Sunday.”