5 December 1999
2nd Sunday of Advent
ORISON: "Hark, a thrilling voice is sounding" (William Henry Monk [d. 1889])
PSALM: 85 (plainsong)
HYMN: "Comfort, comfort ye my people" (Louis Bourgeois, 1551)
NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Ludovico da Viadana)
ANTHEM: "De caelo veniet" (Jakob Handl (Gallus) [1550 - 1591])
12 December 1999
3rd Sunday of Advent
ORISON: "Redeemer of the nations, come" (Veni Redemptor gentium, plainsong)
PSALM: 126 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "Hark! the glad sound! the Saviour comes" (From Ravenscroft’s Psalter, 1615)
NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Richard Proulx)
ANTHEM: "Canite tuba" (Jakob Handl (Gallus) [1550 - 1591])
19 December 1999
4th Sunday of Advent
ORISON: "Of the Father's love begotten" (plainsong)
PSALM: 111 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "Sing we of the blessed Mother" (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry [1848 - 1918])
NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Charles Wood)
ANTHEMS: 1) "Magnificat" (Charles Wood)
2) "Lullay my liking" (Peter Hallock, 1984 [b. 1924])
26 December 1999
1st Sunday after Christmas
PROCESSIONAL: "Hodie Christus natus est" (plainsong)
PSALM: 147 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "In the bleak mid-winter" (Gustav Holst)
NUNC DIMITTIS: (Anonymous setting)
ANTHEMS: 1) "Hodie Christus Natus Est" (Gregorio Turini [d. 1656])
2) "Hodie Christus Natus Est" (G. P. da Palestrina [d. 1594])