Music
Once in Royal David's City
- Words by Cecil F. Alexander (1848)
- Music by Henry J. Gauntlett (1849)
- Performed by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge (2017)
Text (selected)
Once in royal David's city stood a lowly cattle shed
Where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed
Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child
He came down to earth from heaven, who is God and Lord of all
And his shelter was a stable and his cradle was a stall
With the poor and meek and lowly, lived on earth, our Savior holy
And our eyes at last shall see him through his own redeeming love
For that child so dear and gentle is our Lord in heaven above
And he leads his children on to the place where he has gone
Meditation
The theme of the Fourth Sunday of Advent is LOVE.
John writes:
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:9-11 ESV)
The Collect for the Fourth Sunday of Advent;
Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared by himself; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever; Amen.
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