{"id":4033,"date":"2025-11-30T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2025-11-30T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:23:47","slug":"a-celebration-of-the-first-sunday-of-advent-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/30\/a-celebration-of-the-first-sunday-of-advent-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration of the First Sunday of Advent 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Advent-1st-Sunday-2022.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Opening Sentence: From Psalm 25.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hymn: \u201cCome, thou Long Expected Jesus.\u201d Public Domain at Archive.org; Uploaded by Fr Timothy Matkin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First Reading: Isaiah 2:1-5, King James Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psalm 122: \u201cI Was Glad When They Said Unto Me\u201d by Charles H. Hubert Parry (1848-1918). Performed by Immanuel Congregational Church, Hartford; available in the Public Domain at Archive.org.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second Reading: Romans 13:11-14, World English Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hymn: \u201cSavior of the Nations Come\u201d, sung by Immanuel Congregational Church, Hartford, in the public domain at Archive.org. \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gospel: Matthew 24:36-44, World English Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lord\u2019s Prayer: From Matthew.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blessing: 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Corinthians 13.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anthem: \u201cO Come O Come Emmanuel\u201d posted by \u201cFerox\u201d in the Internet Archive. Public Domain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organ Postlude: J.S. Bach (1685-1750) \u201cNun Komm, der Heiden Heiland\u201d, BWV 659, Performed by David Schaller. Uploaded to YouTube by \u201cAfter Dark Organ Music\u201d, used in accordance with Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible passages were recorded by Librivox, and are in the public domain. Readings correspond to the Revised Common Lectionary. All audio files are given with attribution where known.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible passages were recorded by Librivox, and are in the public domain. Readings correspond to the Revised Common Lectionary. All audio files are given with attribution where known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,65,27],"tags":[1475,1423,1476,1421,309,1422,677,1172,1202,1216,1233],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feasts-and-seasons","category-music","category-underground-church","tag-come-thou-long-expected-jesus","tag-i-was-glad-when-they-said-unto-me","tag-o-come-o-come-emmanuel","tag-savior-of-the-nations-come","tag-advent","tag-charles-h-hubert-parry","tag-feasts-and-seasons","tag-johann-sebastian-bach","tag-revised-common-lectionary","tag-virtual-church-service","tag-year-a"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}