Today 1st December 2013 is the first Sunday of Advent. This is my favourite time of the year in the church calendar. Advent from the Latin adventus meaning ‘coming’ - prepares our hearts and minds for Christmas. The beautiful celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ on 25 December. Our choir sang the beautiful hymn, my favourite of the Advent hymns, O Come O Come Emmanuel, this morning at 10.30 mass.
Sung here by the Choir of the Clare College , Cambridge
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel
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