Luceat Choir

Luceat Choir – Vidimmus Gloriam Eius: A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols for Christmas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:47:40 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Classical
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From its humble beginnings more than one hundred and forty years ago, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols has become a cornerstone of Christmas in the Anglican repertoire. The very first Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols took place on Christmas Eve 1880 in Truro: the newly-enthroned Bishop of Truro, the Right Reverend Edward White Benson, devised a service of readings and carols to bring the worshipping community together, rather than in previous years where the choir would go from house to house in the parish, and with the added benefit of keeping parishioners out of the Cornish taverns. It traces the story of the Fall of Adam to the prophecies of the coming of the Messiah, culminating in the iconic prologue to the Gospel of St John, where Jesus is identified as the “Word” of God, asserting the divinity of Christ who has come from God as the redeemer of humankind.

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