Please join us on Sunday, December 14 at 10:00 am. for First Congregational Church's annual Festival of Lessons and Carols, a beloved tradition from England where God's word is proclaimed and contemplated in a special sequence of readings, prayers, poetry, choral anthems and congregational carols and hymns.
The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is most affectionately connected to King's College in Cambridge, England, where it has graced the Chapel on Christmas Eve since 1918.
About Benjamin Britten and A Ceremony of Carols
This year, our Lessons and Carols service highlights the music of Benjamin Britten. A Ceremony of Carols has a storied history. Benjamin Britten wrote the piece in 1942 while crossing the Atlantic aboard a Swedish cargo ship. He actually intended to use the month-long voyage to complete what would become his well-known Hymn to St. Cecilia, but the early sketches were confiscated by customs authorities who feared that the music was in fact a secret code.
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