Unknown Catalan Master, Nativity, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1200-50
And
she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth,
and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn (NRSV, Luke 2:7).
Christmas Eve
4:00 pm Family Eucharist with Nativity Pageant
Salvador Dali, Jesu Nativitas, Biblia Sacra, 1964-67
Midnight Mass
11:00 pm Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: What child is this? [Kripfgans: YouTube], Richard Purvis (1913-94)
Mass Setting: Missa Nativitatis, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)
Introit: All my heart this night rejoices [text/Rutter: listen], Johann Ebeling(1620[37]- 1666[76])
Motets: O magnum mysterium [text], Malcolm Archer (b. 1952)
Sans Day Carol [Polyphony: text/YouTube], Cornish Carol
Postlude: From heaven high to earth I
come [Lucas: YouTube], Garth Edmundson (1900-71)
William Blake, The Annunciation to the Shepherds, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, 1809
Feast of the Nativity of the Lord
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Noël en récit et en taille sur la tierce du positif [Bardon: musicMe], Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)
Mass Setting: Missa Nativitatis, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)
Introit: I saw three ships [text/Stairwell: YouTube], arr. Ian Humphris
Motet: Jesus, Jesus rest your head [text] [YouTube], Appalachian carol, arr. Arthur Warrell (1900-70)
Postlude: Noël suisse [Tompkins: listen], Louis-Claude Daquin
