Sunday 4 December, 2022
- General:
- Lectionary
2nd Sunday of Advent
Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Also see the worship materials prepared for this year’s Methodist theme: There is Room. For further Advent materials, a good starting place is the StF One stop shop for Advent
Lighting of Advent candles
Useful hymns (using verses as appropriate). Singing the Faith Plus also offers a number of options for Advent Candle Liturgies
*Advent candles tell their story (StF 165)
‘Christmas is coming!’ The Church is glad to sing (StF 166)
God whose almighty word (StF 106)
*Light a candle in a darkened place (StF 174)
Light of the world, you stepped down in darkness (StF 175)
Like a candle flame, flickering small in our darkness (StF 176)
Longing for light, we wait in darkness (“Christ, be our light!”) (StF 706)
Round orange, round orange (StF 184) a Christingle carol
Father of everlasting grace (StF 378)
Long ago, prophets knew (StF 178)
Make me a channel of your peace (StF 707)
Spirit of God, unseen as the wind (StF 394)
The prophets’ voice comes down the years (StF 162)
There is a new heaven; there is a new earth (StF 738)
We pray for peace, but not the easy peace (StF 719)
Hymns echoing psalmist’s theme
Father in heaven, grant to your children (StF 4)
Hail to the Lord’s Anointed (StF 228)
Jesus shall reign where’er the sun (StF 328)
Lord, your Church on earth is seeking (StF 410)
May the God of hope go with us every day (StF 411)
Send down the fire of your justice (StF 413)
Sing we the King who is coming to reign (StF 185)
Being of beings, God of love (StF 490)
Brother, sister, let me serve you (StF 611)
Come, all who look to Christ today (StF 678)
Come, and let us sweetly join Christ to praise in hymns divine (StF 646)
Community of Christ, who make the Cross your own (StF 681)
Fill thou my life, O Lord my God (StF 73)
Let us a build a house where love can dwell (StF 409)
May the God of hope go with us every day (StF 411)
Not far beyond the sea nor high above the heavens, but very nigh (StF 159)
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy (StF 416)
Day of judgment! Day of wonder! (StF 732)
Into the darkness of this world (StF 173)
My God! I know, I feel thee mine (StF 390)
O come, O come, Immanuel (StF 180)
On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (StF 182)
Praise to the God who clears the way (StF 183)
We wait in hope for hope to come website only
Wild and lone the prophet’s voice (StF 189)