Carols before Mass:
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Angels We Have Heard On High
O Little Town of Bethlehem
The First Nowell
Once in Royal David’s City
Entrance: O Come All Ye Faithful
Christmas Psalm
Gifts: O Holy Night
Communion: Come to the Table (Burland)
Away in a Manger
Mary’s Boy Child
Thanksgiving: Silent Night
Recessional: Joy to the World
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
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Midnight mass at St Mary’s Ipswich from the Choir Loft.
Carols beforehand:
Adept Fiddles
The First Noel
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Come to the Manger
Angels we have heard on high
Christmas Day (The North Wind is tossing the leaves…) (John Wheeler)
Sing Gloria (John Wheeler)
A Christmas Carol (Joncas)
Morning Softly Awakens (Norbet)
Entrance: O Come All Ye Faithful
Gloria: Mass of St Francis
Psalm 97 (Colin Smith – AOV 14)
Remembrance Alleluia
Procession of infant to manger: Gloria (Berthier) GA 290
Gifts: Christmas Day (John Wheeler)
Mass parts: Mass of St Francis
Communion: Lord Today (Balhoff)
O Holy Night
A Christmas Carol (Joncas)
Thanksgiving: Silent Night
Recessional: Joy to the World
Auto correct changed “Adeste Fiddles” to “Adept Fiddles”
6pm Christmas Eve Mass and Nativity at St Mary’s Ipswich
Carols before:
The First Noel
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
When A Child is Born
Mary Did You Know? (Lowry and Greene)
Morning Softly Awakens (Norbet)
Entrance: O Come All Ye Faithful
Gloria and other mass parts: Mass of Glory and Praise
Psalm: Christmas Psalm (Farrell)
Alleluia: Gospel Greeting (Farrell)
During Nativity: Little Drummer Boy, Away in a Manger, Do You Hear What I Hear
Gifts: O Holy Night
Communion: Pie Jesu, The Name of God (Haas), O Come O Come Emmanuel
Thanksgiving: Silent Night
Recessional: Joy to the World
I’m curious about which tune you use for Away in a Manger in Australia… I’ve rarely heard the CRADLE SONG tune here in the US, but it’s the tune in our hymnal. I don’t recall ever singing the song at mass, maybe because our hymnal has the tune we don’t know very well. MUELLER seems much more common here.
They are both in use but CRADLE SONG seems more commonly used and is what we will sing tonight.
I prefer MUELLER.
Geoff
Corinda Graceville
Each Christmas Mass is doing their own selection of carols and hymns from our carol booklets. Carols are sung before our 6pm & 8pm Vigil & 11 pm Night Masses. We are doing Mass Shalom with ‘Save Us Saviour’. At our 6pm Christmas Vigil we use Eucharist Prayer 3 for Children and the refrain of ‘Angels We Have Heard on High’ is used for the ‘Glory to God in the Highest’ responses.
The psalm for our Vigil and Night Masses will be ‘Christmas Psalm’ – Farrell
Music at 8am Christmas Day Mass
Gathering: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Psalm: All the Ends of the Earth – Hurd
POG: Away in a Manger
Communion: Hark! The Herald Angels Sings & Angels We Have Heard On High (if required) – in the same key so I can flow from one into the other
Sending Forth: Joy to the World
It’s currently 2:00 AM here and I’m going off memory so I’m sure I missed some of the carols before mass in this list…
Midnight mass pre-mass choir carols:
Of the Father’s Love Begotten
Coventry Carol
Ukrainian Bell Carol (Carol of the Bells/Ring Christmas Bells)
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
O Holy Night
Gathering: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Gloria: Mass for a Servant Church (Guimont)
Alleluia: Christmas Season Gospel Acclamation (Bridge; adapt. from Sussex Carol)
Gifts: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Mass Parts w/We Proclaim Your Death: Mass for a Servant Church (Guimont)
Communion: Silent Night
Angels We Have Heard on High
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Closing: Joy to the World
youth choir
pre-mass: Away in a Manger, Silent Night, O Come all ye Faithful
opening: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
Christmas Gloria (Gibson)
offertory: The First Nowell
communion: Child of the Poor/What Child is This
meditation: Love Has Captured the Night (Blakesley)
closing: Joy to the World