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Lessons & Carols! Not sure what the service is? Here's some information about its history:Up to the late 19th century, the singing of Christmas carols was normally performed by singers visiting people's houses, and carols — generally considered to be secular in content — had been excluded from Christian worship. In the Victorian era, the rising popularity of hymnody encouraged church musicians to introduce carols into worship. In 1880, the Right Rev. Edward White Benson, at that time Bishop of Truro, conducted the first formal service of "Nine Lessons and Carols" on Christmas Eve.
In 1918, the Rev. Eric Milner-White the new dean of King's College, Cambridge, introduced the service to the college chapel, taking advantage of the established choral tradition of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. According to Milner-White, “the main theme is the development of the loving purposes of God” as viewed “through the windows and the words of the Bible.” The service proved highly successful and began an annual tradition. The BBC began to broadcast the service on the radio from 1928 and on television from 1954.
From the story of the fall of humanity, the promise of the Messiah, to the birth of Jesus – Lessons & Carols is a moving service of short Bible readings or lessons from Genesis, the prophetic books and the Gospels, interspersed with the singing of Christmas carols, hymns and choir anthems.
Adapted from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License
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