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Sunday Worship: 'The Dawn from on High'

'The Dawn from on High'

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday Worship, 'The Dawn from on High'

For the second week of Advent, recorded in the Chapel of Girton College, Cambridge.

For the second week of Advent, recorded in the Chapel of Girton College, Cambridge. Preacher: The Rev'd Dr Tim Boniface, College Chaplain.

The Benedictus, the song of Zechariah in Luke chapter 1, eagerly anticipates 'the dawn from on high', the coming of God in Jesus Christ. 
Reflecting the traditional exploration of light in Advent, the Rev'd Dr Tim Boniface will examine in his sermon various ways in which this metaphor of dawn applies to the season - offering hope and challenge, and always lighting a path to those in need.

The service, recorded in Girton College Chapel, Cambridge, will be led by Dr Hilary Marlow (Vice Mistress and Director of Studies in Theology). Hymns:

Come Thou Long Expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus); O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel); Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley). The choir of Girton College, directed by Gareth Wilson, sings

'Whence Is That Goodly Fragrance Flowing', (trad, arr. George Taylor); 
 'Let Justice and Judgement', (Handel); and 'Lost Son' (Milly Atkinson).

Old Testament reading: Isaiah 29: 15-24. New Testament Reading: Luke 1:67-79

Organ Scholars: Emily Nott & Felix Elliott

Producer: Philip Billson

Image: With thanks to Rev'd W. Lyon Tupman

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