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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 14th December 2025
Third Sunday in Advent
n-Person and Livestreamed Worship, 10.30am
Worship Leaders: Rev Ian Gilmour
Organist: Alberto Massimo
Order of Service
(Hymns are from CH4 and readings are from NRSV, except where stated otherwise)
Organ:
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Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
[Please bring Christmas gifts forward during the hymn]
CH3 Hymn 186: Infant holy, infant lowly [Tune: Infant Holy]
Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Lighting the 3rd Advent candle
Carol 1 - Hymn 282 (vv1.2,3): ‘Christmas is coming!’ the Church is glad to sing [Tune: Advent Ring]
Nativity
Carol 2 - Hymn 300: The Virgin Mary [Tune: The Virgin Mary]
Prayers and The Lord's Prayer
Nativity
Reading: James 5: 7–10 (NT pp228-229) [Reader: TBA]
Nativity
Carol 3 - Hymn 310: See him lying in a bed of straw [Tune: Calypso Carol]
Reading: Matthew 11: 2–11 (NT pp10–11) [Reader: TBA]
Nativity
Carol 4 - Hymn 302: It was on a starry night [Tune: Starry Night]
Prayers for others Kirsty and Isla
Nativity
Carol 5 - Hymn 309: Still the night [Tune: Stille Naght]
Nativity
Carol 6 - Hymn 301: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing [Tune: Mendelssohn (Bethlehem)]
Benediction
Organ:
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