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Sunday Worship: Cities of promise: a place for the Saviour

Cities of promise: a place for the Saviour

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday Worship, Cities of promise: a place for the Saviour

A service for the fourth sunday of Advent, from the UK's smallest city: St Davids.

A service for the fourth sunday of Advent, from the UK's smallest city: St Davids. Led by Canon Leigh Richardson, with an address by the Very Reverend Dr Sarah Rowland Jones.

During this era of Covid the city seems to have been devalued as a place of human flourishing. Instead it's become a place of fear of contamination - a place to get away from, no longer a sought after place to live. But the biblical view is of a redeemed city, a place where human culture is valued alongside restored relationships - a place of beauty and worship of the living God.

For this fourth sunday of Advent, Sunday Worship comes from the UK's smallest city, St David's in Pembrokeshire. Dean of St David's Cathedral, Very Reverend Dr Sarah Rowland Jones, reflects on how Jesus came to the tiny city of Bethlehem, and how we can find the Saviour in our cities today.

The service is led by the Sub-Dean, Canon Leigh Richardson. The cathedral choir, able to perform (socially distanced) under Welsh government rules, have recorded music specially for this service and are led by Oliver Waterer, with Simon Pearce at the organ.

Music includes:
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Once In Royal David's City
This Is The Truth
Draw Tua Bethlehem (2019) - Meirion Wynn Jones
O Little Town Of Bethlehem

Producer: Dominic Jewel

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