{"id":4039,"date":"2025-12-21T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2025-12-21T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:17:26","slug":"celebration-of-the-word-for-the-4th-sunday-of-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/21\/celebration-of-the-word-for-the-4th-sunday-of-advent\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of the Word for the 4th Sunday of Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Advent-4th-Sunday-2022.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Opening Sentence: Isaiah 45:8.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choral Response: \u201cRorate Coeli de Super\u201d (Latin version of Isaiah 45:8). This was uploaded to YouTube by \u201cOpera Familia Christi\u201d and used in accordance with the Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First Reading: Isaiah 7:10-16, King James Version.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19, King James Version.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hymn: \u201cCreator of the Stars of Night\u201d, sung by Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford, CT, Dec 2012; Available in the public domain at the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\">Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second Reading: Romans 1:1-7, World English Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hymn arranged for organ and flute: Franz Schubert \u201cAve Maria\u201d, performed by Sofia Lubyantseva; Uploaded to YouTube by \u201cFluteMasters\u201d, and used in accordance with Creative Commons license. \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gospel: Matthew 1:18-25, World English Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lord\u2019s Prayer: Setting by Robert stone (1516-1613). Sung by the choir of St. David\u2019s Church, Exeter, 2018. Uploaded to YouTube by David Walsh, used by permission.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blessing: Numbers 6.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organ postlude: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) \u201cMeine Seele Erhebt den Herren\u201d, Bwv 648. Performed at Jacobikerk Utrecht, uploaded to YouTube by Koos van \u2018t Hul, used in accordance with Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible passages were recorded by <a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.org\">Librivox<\/a>, 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":[1298,1478,309,677,1172,1202,1395,1216,1233],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feasts-and-seasons","category-music","category-underground-church","tag-ave-maria","tag-creator-of-the-stars-of-night","tag-advent","tag-feasts-and-seasons","tag-johann-sebastian-bach","tag-revised-common-lectionary","tag-robert-stone","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\/4039","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=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}