3 Quarters Today

My Life, my photography, my passions

lutheran church

Thursday, Third Week Advent: Once in Royal Davids City, Words to a Kings Processional

by

What Starts in a Shed, Becomes our Lord in Heaven

This is truly a traditional church Christmas hymn. It starts off slow and solemn and builds majestically to the last chorus as we welcome the birth of the baby Jesus. It is like this with Advent. The season of Advent starts off quiet, barely a whisper. But as the last week approaches the climax is in sight.

The history of “Once in Royals Davids City” dates back to 1919 when Arthur Henry Mann, an organist wrote the piece as a processional hymn for the service at Kings College Cambridge. It is still sung with a young boy singing the first verse acapella as the choir joins in the second and building to a crescendo.

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT3cfXd3Shk[/embedyt]

This Christmas hymn is not as popular with contemporary artists, but when it is performed by Jonathan and Charlotte, (finalists in 2012 Britains Got Talent) the operatic version is simply breathtaking.

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOqV3zdG10[/embedyt]

Once in Royal Davids City Sheet Music

Once in Royal Davids City, Words to a Kings ProcessionOnce in Royal Davids City, Words, and Music

Once in royal David’s city
Stood a lowly cattle shed
There a mother laid her baby
In a manger for His bed
Mary was that mother mild
Jesus Christ her little child

He came down to earth from heaven
Who is God and Lord of all
And His shelter was a stable
And His cradle was a stall
With the poor, oppressed and wholly
Lived on earth our Savior holy

For He is our childhood’s pattern
Day by day like us He grew
He was little weak, and stable
Tears and smiles like us He knew
And He feels for all our sadness
And He shares in all our gladness

And our eyes
At last, shall see Him
Through His own redeeming love
For that child, so dear and gentle
Is our Lord in heaven above
And He leads His children along
To the place that He is gone

Weekly Advent Readings: Thursday, 3rd Week Advent

Today’s Reading John 20: 24 -29

Daily Lectionary: Isaiah 42: 1-25:  Revelation 9: 1-12 

Angels We Have Heard on High, Third Day on the Third Week of Advent

by

One of the Most Famous Christmas Hymns

It’s appropriate that on the third week of Advent my favorite Christmas carol Angels We Have Heard on High is on the third Day. I just LOVE this song and LOVE to play it on the piano during Christmas Eve service when the whole congregation is singing.
I could have saved this for Christmas Day and I almost did, but I love it too much. I like to listen to it during the last week of Advent leading up to Christmas.

Angels From the Realm of Glory: Piano Guys Live Nativity Performance

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjgFKACcdQ[/embedyt]

 

I dare you not to listen and watch this performance of a Live Nativity without getting chills. The musicians from the Piano Guys teamed up with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to produce the most amazing rendition of this famous Christmas Hymns
Playlist- Angels We Have Heard on High: Third Day, Chris Tomlin & other artists
I can seriously listen to this Christmas song over and over. So I created a YouTube Playlist. Yes, I have it playing in the background as I’m writing right now. The Pentatonix version is here too, can’t leave them out. If you haven’t figured out they are also one of my favorite acapella groups.
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLp3k-fAVnkqEMPPvnlOkJNm9pIMpr0VUH[/embedyt]

Angels We Have Heard on High Sheet Music

My favorite sheet music to Angels We Have Heard on High isn’t listed here. The reason why is I composed my own version from the Lutheran Hymnal. I love arpeggios and over the years I have come up with my own composition. Maybe one year I will plug in my keyboard and get it down on sheet music.
But here are a few choices. A tip, let the chorus rip! Roll with it, be confident and let it announce the birth of the baby Jesus the newborn King!!


Lutheran Advent Season, What is is All About? Hopefully, this series will inspire, teach and prepare you for Christmas in a way you never considered. Find the words to God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman and learn how it will give you comfort. Find the meaning of the pink candle of Advent? Rejoice!Lyrics: Angels We Have Heard on High 

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly, sweetly through the night
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their brief delight
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing,
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Yeah
Gloria, in Excelsis Deo
Songwriters: Sufjan Stevens
Angels We Have Heard on High lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

http://lyricstranslate.com/en/piano-guys-angels-we-have-heard-high-lyrics.html#ixzz51vIy0BLA

Angels We Have Heard on High: Piano Guy Lyrics

Gloria, Gloria
Angels, from the realms of glory,
Wing your flight o’er all the earth;
Ye who sang creation’s story,
Now proclaim Messiah’s birth:
Gloria, Gloria
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, Gloria
Saints before the altar bending,
Watching long in hope and fear,
Suddenly the Lord, descending,
In His temple shall appear:
Though an Infant now we view Him,
He shall fill His Father’s throne,
Gather all the nations to Him;
Every knee shall then bow down:
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo

Weekly Advent Readings: Tuesday, 3rd Week Advent

Today’s Reading 1 Corinthians 4: 1-5

Daily Lectionary: Isaiah 40: 1-17;  Revelation 7: 1-17 


Tuesday of the First Week of Advent: Prepare the Royal Highway

by

Prepare the Royal Highway

The Lord is Coming! He’s nearer now than ever and he’s closer to you than yesterday. Prepare the Royal Highway, Christmas is drawing near! God loves you and is giving you the Gift of Jesus Christ. His birth is just around the corner.

You can prepare children for Advent by actively teaching them about the importance of Jesus and how he forgives them, even when they think no one else will.

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OovruxWkQkU[/embedyt]

Lutheran Advent Season, What is is All About? Hopefully, this series will inspire, teach and prepare you for Christmas in a way you never considered. Prepare the Royal Highway for the coming of the Lord.Jesus is God’s love for all reasons.

He loves you despite what you do, despite what sins you commit. We don’t have to earn God’s love. It is a love that transcends humankind. Isn’t this great?

Man tends to put conditions on love. If you do this, then I will love you. God and Jesus love unconditionally. Even when you can’t love people around you God loves them for you. What gets in the way of God’s love? Sin.

Sin creeps into our daily life, it makes us proud, stubborn and we hurt ourselves. We sometimes feel as though we can’t go to God for forgiveness. That is why he gave us Jesus Christ to forgive our sins.

The baby Jesus is true man, and true God. He is approachable, kind, and leads by example. We can do as he has taught us, we can believe in him, ask for forgiveness and be forgiven.  This is called repenting of sins. When you recognize your sins, put them out there before our Lord and Savior and be forgiven the weight of guilt is lifted. It can no longer hurt us.

So let’s prepare the royal highway for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

During this first week of Advent clean up your life. Put away your secret sins. Stop talking about others. Don’t wish bad on those you dislike. Recognize there are sins you can’t control. Ask for forgiveness for them, ask for guidance in resolution and put a plan into place on controlling your sins.

Prayer for Advent: “Stir up Your powers, O Lord, and come, that by Your protection we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins and saved by Your mighty deliverance; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and forever.” (Collect for Advent 1)

Reflections the First Tuesday of Advent

Today’s Reading: Jeremiah 23: 5-8

Daily Lectionary: Isaiah 10: 8-12:27,3-34;  2 Peter 1: 1-21

Links to follow the First Week of Advent

Tomorrow learn how wonderful it is to be a Child of God