0:00:02 > 0:00:09# Magnify, glorify, extol and exalt the Lord
0:00:09 > 0:00:17# Magnify, glorify, His holy name for evermore
0:00:18 > 0:00:25# Magnify, glorify, extol and exalt the Lord
0:00:27 > 0:00:35# Glorify, magnify, His name for evermore
0:00:36 > 0:00:40# Hallelujah, Amen
0:00:40 > 0:00:45# Hallelujah, Amen
0:00:45 > 0:00:51# Hallelujah, Hallelujah
0:00:51 > 0:00:59# Amen. #
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Well, wasn't that a majestic sound?
0:01:04 > 0:01:09The Massed Male Voice Choir of Scotland in full voice.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Welcome to the Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling for this special
0:01:12 > 0:01:16programme of seasonal words and music to lead us into Christmas Day.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19The Church is the second oldest building in Stirling
0:01:19 > 0:01:21after the castle.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24It was founded in 1129 during the reign of David I
0:01:24 > 0:01:27as the parish church of Stirling.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Holy Rude means Holy Cross,
0:01:29 > 0:01:32same as Holyrood in Edinburgh, where the parliament is.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Holy Rude is the only church in the United Kingdom
0:01:35 > 0:01:38other than Westminster Abbey to have held a coronation
0:01:38 > 0:01:40and still be a living church today.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43That coronation was in 1567,
0:01:43 > 0:01:47when the infant King James VI was crowned here.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51Joining me in this historic venue this evening is an all-star cast -
0:01:51 > 0:01:54the Massed Male Voice Choir of Scotland
0:01:54 > 0:01:56under their Conductor William Barr,
0:01:56 > 0:02:01a brilliant young tenor Iain Milne, organist George McPhee,
0:02:01 > 0:02:05guitarist Alastair Macdonald, and actress Juliet Cadzow.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09And as our special guest we have the Big Noise Orchestra from Raploch,
0:02:09 > 0:02:11which of course is right here in Stirling.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Quite a line-up!
0:02:13 > 0:02:16So let's begin with one of the great traditional carols,
0:02:16 > 0:02:20inviting us all to take part in the Christmas Celebration.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23O Come All Ye Faithful, Joyful And Triumphant.
0:02:24 > 0:02:30# O come all ye faithful
0:02:30 > 0:02:35# Joyful and triumphant
0:02:35 > 0:02:37# O come ye
0:02:37 > 0:02:45# O come ye to Bethlehem
0:02:45 > 0:02:50# Come and behold Him
0:02:50 > 0:02:55# Born the King of angels
0:02:55 > 0:02:59- #- O come, let us adore Him!
0:02:59 > 0:03:04# O come, let us adore Him!
0:03:04 > 0:03:10# O come, let us adore Him
0:03:10 > 0:03:16# Christ the Lord!
0:03:18 > 0:03:23# God of God
0:03:23 > 0:03:28# Light of light
0:03:28 > 0:03:36# Lo! He abhors not the virgin's womb
0:03:39 > 0:03:44# Very God
0:03:44 > 0:03:49# Begotten, not created
0:03:49 > 0:03:54# O come, let us adore Him!
0:03:54 > 0:03:59# O come, let us adore Him!
0:03:59 > 0:04:05# O come, let us adore Him
0:04:05 > 0:04:12# Christ the Lord!
0:04:16 > 0:04:21# Yea, Lord, we greet Thee
0:04:21 > 0:04:27# Born this happy morning
0:04:27 > 0:04:35# Jesus for evermore be Thy name adored
0:04:38 > 0:04:44# Word of the Father
0:04:44 > 0:04:49# Now in flesh appearing
0:04:49 > 0:04:55# O come, let us adore Him!
0:04:55 > 0:05:01# O come, let us adore Him!
0:05:01 > 0:05:08# O come, let us adore Him
0:05:08 > 0:05:16# Christ the Lord! #
0:05:18 > 0:05:23Four years ago, only one child on the Raploch council estate at the
0:05:23 > 0:05:27foot of the Castle here in Stirling was learning a musical instrument.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Then the Scottish Arts Council set up a pioneering musical
0:05:31 > 0:05:34education system in Raploch, based on the highly successful
0:05:34 > 0:05:39El Sistema project established in Venezuela in 1975.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Now, four years on, there are 450 kids who are not only playing
0:05:43 > 0:05:47the instruments, but playing them as part of an orchestra.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50The main orchestra is called Big Noise.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Here they are joining in a carol that reminds us
0:05:53 > 0:05:56of the place where Christmas, in a sense, began.
0:05:56 > 0:05:57O Little Town Of Bethlehem.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Christmas is never where you expect it.
0:08:25 > 0:08:31Not in the big house with the fire lit and the presents rustling, nor
0:08:31 > 0:08:36when the lights awaken the tree and you should feel something and don't.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41Christmas happens in an unimaginable place -
0:08:41 > 0:08:44in a city store with canned music,
0:08:44 > 0:08:48in the street with a stranger and a white cyclamen,
0:08:48 > 0:08:53or when the silence tightens the cry in your throat.
0:08:54 > 0:09:00Then Christmas comes, never where you expect it
0:09:00 > 0:09:02and always in Bethlehem.
0:09:12 > 0:09:18# As I walked down the road at set of sun
0:09:18 > 0:09:26# The lambs were coming homewards, one by one
0:09:26 > 0:09:33# I heard a sheep bell softly calling them
0:09:33 > 0:09:41# Along the little road to Bethlehem
0:09:45 > 0:09:52# Beside an open door, as I drew nigh
0:09:52 > 0:09:59# I heard sweet Mary sing a lullaby
0:09:59 > 0:10:06# She sang about the lambs at close of day
0:10:06 > 0:10:14# And rocked her tiny King among the hay
0:10:19 > 0:10:26# Across the air the silver sheep bell rang
0:10:26 > 0:10:34# "The lambs are coming home" sweet Mary sang
0:10:34 > 0:10:41# Your Star of gold, your Star of gold
0:10:41 > 0:10:47# Is shining in the sky
0:10:47 > 0:10:55# So sleep my little King, go lullaby
0:11:02 > 0:11:09# As I walked down the road at set of sun,
0:11:09 > 0:11:15# The lambs were coming homewards, one by one
0:11:15 > 0:11:23# I heard a sheep bell softly calling them
0:11:23 > 0:11:29# Along the little road to Bethlehem. #
0:11:46 > 0:11:50This is the only surviving original manuscript
0:11:50 > 0:11:53of the world's most popular carol.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57It was heard for the first time on Christmas Eve 1818,
0:11:57 > 0:12:00when it was performed at Midnight Mass in
0:12:00 > 0:12:04St Nicholas Church in the little Austrian village of Oberndorf.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07It was sung by the choir director Franz Gruber,
0:12:07 > 0:12:09who had composed the tune.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12He was accompanied on the guitar by the assistant pastor,
0:12:12 > 0:12:16Father Joseph Mohr, who had written the words.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Little did they realise that their simple carol,
0:12:19 > 0:12:22with its gently rocking rhythm and simple message,
0:12:22 > 0:12:26would wing its way into the hearts of people throughout the world.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Now translated into hundreds of languages,
0:12:29 > 0:12:33it is sung by untold millions every Christmas Eve -
0:12:33 > 0:12:36in the smallest chapel to the grandest cathedral.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39It is, of course, Silent Night.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51# Silent night
0:12:51 > 0:12:56# Holy night
0:12:56 > 0:13:00# All is calm
0:13:00 > 0:13:03# All is bright
0:13:03 > 0:13:07# Round yon virgin
0:13:07 > 0:13:11# Mother and child
0:13:11 > 0:13:17# Holy infant, so tender and mild
0:13:18 > 0:13:26# Sleep in heavenly peace
0:13:26 > 0:13:34# Sleep in heavenly peace
0:13:38 > 0:13:43# Silent night
0:13:43 > 0:13:47# Holy night
0:13:47 > 0:13:55# Shepherds first saw the light
0:13:58 > 0:14:06# Heard resounding clear and long
0:14:09 > 0:14:17# Far and near the angel song
0:14:19 > 0:14:27# Christ the Redeemer is here
0:14:30 > 0:14:38# Christ the Redeemer is here
0:14:48 > 0:14:52# Silent night
0:14:52 > 0:14:57# Holy night
0:14:57 > 0:15:01# Son of God
0:15:01 > 0:15:04# O how bright
0:15:04 > 0:15:12# Love is smiling from thy face
0:15:12 > 0:15:19# Strikes for us now the hour of grace
0:15:19 > 0:15:27#Saviour, since thou art born
0:15:27 > 0:15:35# Saviour since thou art born. #
0:15:44 > 0:15:46The midnight hour has come.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50From all of us here in Stirling, may I wish you all wherever you are
0:15:50 > 0:15:53a happy and peaceful Christmas.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57Last month, I was in China as the Chinese Church celebrated
0:15:57 > 0:16:00the printing of the 100 millionth Bible
0:16:00 > 0:16:03at the Amity Printing Press in Nanjing.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07This occasion marked a significant landmark for Christians in China,
0:16:07 > 0:16:11who despite past hardships are today witnessing huge numbers
0:16:11 > 0:16:14of people coming to faith and joining the church,
0:16:14 > 0:16:18as they are in other countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23The good news that begins with the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem,
0:16:23 > 0:16:28when God came to us, a tiny, weak and vulnerable baby
0:16:28 > 0:16:30born to his young mother Mary,
0:16:30 > 0:16:34that good news of forgiveness, reconciliation
0:16:34 > 0:16:38and fullness of life has become rooted in cultures and communities
0:16:38 > 0:16:42all around the world, passed on from generation to generation.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48This Christmas, as we rejoice once more that God showed his great love
0:16:48 > 0:16:53for the world when the Christ Child was born in Bethlehem, we give
0:16:53 > 0:16:56thanks in the midst of our troubles and anxieties, that the hope
0:16:56 > 0:17:00of salvation offered through Him is a light that shines in the darkness,
0:17:00 > 0:17:04news of great joy, not only for us here in Scotland,
0:17:04 > 0:17:06but for all the world.
0:17:12 > 0:17:13MUSIC: "Joy To The World"
0:17:15 > 0:17:19# Joy to the world the Lord is come
0:17:19 > 0:17:25# Let Earth receive her King
0:17:25 > 0:17:31# Let every heart prepare Him room
0:17:31 > 0:17:33# And heaven and nature sing
0:17:33 > 0:17:36# And heaven and nature sing
0:17:36 > 0:17:42# And heaven and heaven and nature sing
0:17:42 > 0:17:47# Joy to the world, the Saviour reigns
0:17:47 > 0:17:52# Let men their songs employ
0:17:55 > 0:18:01# While fields and floods rock hills and plains
0:18:01 > 0:18:04# Repeat the sounding joy
0:18:04 > 0:18:06# Repeat the sounding joy
0:18:06 > 0:18:11# Repeat, repeat the sounding joy
0:18:16 > 0:18:22# He rules the world with truth and grace
0:18:22 > 0:18:26# And makes the nations prove
0:18:29 > 0:18:35# The glories of his righteousness
0:18:35 > 0:18:38# And wonders of his love
0:18:38 > 0:18:41# And wonders of his love
0:18:41 > 0:18:45# And wonders and wonders of his love
0:18:47 > 0:18:53# Joy to the world the Lord is come
0:18:53 > 0:18:59# Let earth receive her King
0:18:59 > 0:19:05# Let every heart prepare Him room
0:19:05 > 0:19:08# And heaven and nature sing
0:19:08 > 0:19:10# And heaven and nature sing
0:19:10 > 0:19:16# And heaven and heaven and nature sing
0:19:20 > 0:19:28# And heaven and heaven and nature sing. #
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Once there was a snowman
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Who stood outside the door
0:19:38 > 0:19:40He wished that he could come inside
0:19:40 > 0:19:42And run about the floor
0:19:42 > 0:19:44He wished that he could warm himself
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Beside the fire, so red
0:19:46 > 0:19:48He wished that he could climb
0:19:48 > 0:19:50Upon the big white bed.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52So he called to the North Wind
0:19:52 > 0:19:54"Come and help me, pray
0:19:54 > 0:19:56"For I'm completely frozen
0:19:56 > 0:19:58"Standing here all day."
0:19:58 > 0:20:00So the North Wind came along
0:20:00 > 0:20:03And blew him in the door
0:20:03 > 0:20:05And now there's nothing left
0:20:05 > 0:20:07But a puddle on the floor!
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Well, that was great fun.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31And I've feeling the Big Noise thought so, too.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34But if you're a singer rather than an instrumentalist,
0:22:34 > 0:22:37then this next carol is the one for you.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41O Holy Night is a perennial Christmas favourite and just about
0:22:41 > 0:22:45every singer you can think of has recorded it. Especially the tenors.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48But Adolphe Adam's famous melody also has a unique
0:22:48 > 0:22:50place in musical history.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53When the Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden broadcast
0:22:53 > 0:22:57the world's first radio programme on Christmas Eve in 1906,
0:22:57 > 0:23:01the first carol to be performed was O Holy Night.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10# O holy night
0:23:10 > 0:23:14# The stars are brightly shining
0:23:14 > 0:23:20# It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth
0:23:23 > 0:23:26# Long lay the world
0:23:26 > 0:23:29# In sin and error pining
0:23:29 > 0:23:32# Till He appeared
0:23:32 > 0:23:36# And the soul felt its worth
0:23:36 > 0:23:40# A thrill of hope
0:23:40 > 0:23:43# The weary world rejoices
0:23:43 > 0:23:45# For yonder breaks
0:23:45 > 0:23:48# A new and glorious morn
0:23:48 > 0:23:54# Fall on your knees
0:23:54 > 0:24:02# Oh, hear the angel voices
0:24:02 > 0:24:07# O night divine
0:24:07 > 0:24:15# O night when Christ was born
0:24:15 > 0:24:21# O night divine
0:24:21 > 0:24:28# O night divine O night, O night divine
0:24:43 > 0:24:46# Led by the light
0:24:46 > 0:24:50# Of faith serenely beaming
0:24:50 > 0:24:53# With glowing hearts
0:24:53 > 0:24:56# By His cradle we stand
0:24:59 > 0:25:02# So, led by light
0:25:02 > 0:25:06# Of a star sweetly gleaming
0:25:06 > 0:25:12# Here came the wise men from the Orient land
0:25:13 > 0:25:16# The King of Kings
0:25:16 > 0:25:20# Lay thus in lowly manger
0:25:20 > 0:25:23# In all our trials
0:25:23 > 0:25:26# Born to be our friend
0:25:26 > 0:25:33# He knows our need
0:25:33 > 0:25:39# To our weakness no stranger
0:25:39 > 0:25:45# Behold your King
0:25:45 > 0:25:51# Before Him lowly bend
0:25:53 > 0:26:00# Behold your King
0:26:00 > 0:26:08# Before Him lowly bend. #
0:26:17 > 0:26:18O Holy Night.
0:26:18 > 0:26:23What a marvellous melody, beautifully sung by Iain Milne.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27In the Old Testament, the prophet Micah foretold that a Messiah would
0:26:27 > 0:26:32come from the small and seemingly insignificant town of Bethlehem.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35He added that would be highly honoured around the world,
0:26:35 > 0:26:37and would be a source of peace.
0:26:37 > 0:26:42He's Juliet Cadzow to read a poem on the theme of peace.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45It was written by the American poet Maya Angelou,
0:26:45 > 0:26:50specially for the 2005 White House Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52It's called Amazing Peace.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57Thunder rumbles in the mountain passes
0:26:57 > 0:27:01And lightning rattles the eaves of our houses
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Flood waters await us in our avenues
0:27:05 > 0:27:10Snow falls upon snow, falls upon snow
0:27:10 > 0:27:13To avalanche over the unprotected villages
0:27:13 > 0:27:19The sky slips low and grey and threatening
0:27:19 > 0:27:21We question ourselves
0:27:21 > 0:27:25What have we done to so affront nature?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27We worry, God
0:27:27 > 0:27:31Are you there? Are you there, really?
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Does the covenant you made with us still hold?
0:27:36 > 0:27:42Into this climate of fear and apprehension, Christmas enters
0:27:42 > 0:27:48Streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of hope
0:27:48 > 0:27:50And singing carols of forgiveness
0:27:50 > 0:27:54High up in the bright air
0:27:54 > 0:27:58The world in encouraged to come away from rancour
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Come the way of friendship
0:28:01 > 0:28:04It is the Glad season
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Thunder ebbs to silence
0:28:07 > 0:28:11And lightning sleeps quietly in the corner
0:28:11 > 0:28:15Flood waters recede into memory
0:28:15 > 0:28:20Snow becomes a yielding cushion to aid us
0:28:20 > 0:28:25As we make our way to higher ground
0:28:26 > 0:28:30In our joy, we think we hear a whisper
0:28:30 > 0:28:32At first it is too soft
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Then only half heard
0:28:35 > 0:28:38We listen carefully as it gathers strength
0:28:38 > 0:28:40We hear a sweetness
0:28:40 > 0:28:43The word is Peace
0:28:43 > 0:28:45It is loud now
0:28:45 > 0:28:46It is louder
0:28:46 > 0:28:49Louder than the explosion of bombs
0:28:49 > 0:28:51We tremble at the sound
0:28:51 > 0:28:54We are thrilled by its presence
0:28:54 > 0:28:56It is what we have hungered for
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Not just the absence of war
0:28:58 > 0:29:00But true peace
0:29:02 > 0:29:04At this Holy instant
0:29:04 > 0:29:07We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ
0:29:07 > 0:29:10Into the great religions of the world
0:29:10 > 0:29:13We jubilate the precious advent of trust
0:29:13 > 0:29:17We shout with glorious tongues at the coming of hope
0:29:17 > 0:29:21All the Earth's tribes loosen their voices
0:29:21 > 0:29:24To celebrate the promise of peace
0:29:24 > 0:29:29We, Angels and Mortals, Believers and Non-believers
0:29:29 > 0:29:35Look Heavenward and speak the word aloud
0:29:35 > 0:29:37Peace
0:29:37 > 0:29:41We look at the world and speak the word aloud
0:29:41 > 0:29:43Peace
0:29:43 > 0:29:48We look at each other, then into ourselves
0:29:48 > 0:29:54And we say without shyness or apology or hesitation
0:29:54 > 0:29:56Peace, My Brother
0:29:57 > 0:30:00Peace, My Sister
0:30:02 > 0:30:05Peace, My Soul.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16# This is my song
0:30:16 > 0:30:23# O God of all the nations
0:30:24 > 0:30:29# A song of Peace
0:30:29 > 0:30:37# For lands afar and mine
0:30:37 > 0:30:42# This is my home
0:30:42 > 0:30:49# The country where my heart is
0:30:51 > 0:30:55# Here are my hopes
0:30:55 > 0:31:03# My dreams, my holy Shrine
0:31:04 > 0:31:09# But other hearts
0:31:09 > 0:31:17# In other lands are beating
0:31:18 > 0:31:23# With hopes and dreams
0:31:23 > 0:31:31# As true and high as mine
0:31:33 > 0:31:39# May truth and freedom
0:31:39 > 0:31:43# Come to every nation
0:31:46 > 0:31:51# May peace abound
0:31:51 > 0:31:58# Where strife has raged so long
0:31:58 > 0:32:03# That each may seek
0:32:03 > 0:32:11# To love and build together
0:32:11 > 0:32:17# A world united
0:32:17 > 0:32:24# Righting every wrong
0:32:24 > 0:32:30# A world united
0:32:30 > 0:32:37# In its love for freedom
0:32:37 > 0:32:44# Proclaiming peace
0:32:44 > 0:32:51# Together in one song
0:33:31 > 0:33:39# Proclaiming peace
0:33:41 > 0:33:49# Together in one song
0:33:54 > 0:34:02# Amen. #
0:34:06 > 0:34:11What a sound. 200 male voices in glorious harmony.
0:34:11 > 0:34:16But it's not only with the voice that we are asked to offer praise.
0:34:16 > 0:34:17The psalmist calls us to
0:34:17 > 0:34:19praise Him with the sound of the trumpet,
0:34:19 > 0:34:22praise Him with the psaltery and harp,
0:34:22 > 0:34:26with the timbrel and dance, with stringed instruments and organs.
0:34:26 > 0:34:28Praise Him upon the loud cymbals.
0:34:28 > 0:34:32Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.
0:34:32 > 0:34:35Yeah, but there was one instrument he didn't mention.
0:34:35 > 0:34:36The little drum.
0:36:47 > 0:36:51After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,
0:36:51 > 0:36:56during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem
0:36:56 > 0:37:00and asked, "Where is the one who has been born King of the Jews?
0:37:00 > 0:37:05"We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."
0:37:05 > 0:37:08When King Herod heard this he was disturbed,
0:37:08 > 0:37:11and all Jerusalem with him.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14When he had called together all the people's chief priests and
0:37:14 > 0:37:20teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23"In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied,
0:37:23 > 0:37:26"for this is what the Prophet has written.
0:37:26 > 0:37:31"But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least
0:37:31 > 0:37:36"among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler
0:37:36 > 0:37:40"who will be the shepherd of my people Israel."
0:37:40 > 0:37:45Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them
0:37:45 > 0:37:48the exact time the star had appeared.
0:37:48 > 0:37:51He sent them to Bethlehem and said,
0:37:51 > 0:37:55"Go and make a careful search for the child.
0:37:55 > 0:37:59"As soon as you have found him, report to me,
0:37:59 > 0:38:02"so that I too may go and worship him."
0:38:02 > 0:38:06After they had heard the King, they went on their way,
0:38:06 > 0:38:09and the star they had seen in the east
0:38:09 > 0:38:14went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.
0:38:14 > 0:38:19When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.
0:38:19 > 0:38:24On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and
0:38:24 > 0:38:29they bowed down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures
0:38:29 > 0:38:34and presented Him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.
0:38:35 > 0:38:41And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod,
0:38:41 > 0:38:45they returned to their country by another route.
0:38:49 > 0:38:53# God rest you merry, gentlemen
0:38:53 > 0:38:56# Let nothing you dismay
0:38:56 > 0:38:58# Remember Christ our Saviour
0:38:58 > 0:39:01# Was born on Christmas Day
0:39:01 > 0:39:04# To save us all from Satan's power
0:39:04 > 0:39:06# When we were gone astray
0:39:06 > 0:39:10# O tidings of comfort and joy
0:39:10 > 0:39:12# Comfort and joy
0:39:12 > 0:39:17# O tidings of comfort and joy
0:39:18 > 0:39:20# The shepherds at those tidings
0:39:20 > 0:39:23# Rejoiced much in mind
0:39:23 > 0:39:26# And left their flocks a-feeding
0:39:26 > 0:39:28# In tempest, storm and wind
0:39:28 > 0:39:32# And went to Bethlehem straightway
0:39:32 > 0:39:34# This blessed babe to find
0:39:34 > 0:39:38# O tidings of comfort and joy
0:39:38 > 0:39:40# Comfort and joy
0:39:40 > 0:39:45# O tidings of comfort and joy
0:39:45 > 0:39:49# But when to Bethlehem they came
0:39:49 > 0:39:52# Whereat this infant lay
0:39:52 > 0:39:55# They found Him in a manger
0:39:55 > 0:39:57# Where oxen feed on hay
0:39:57 > 0:40:01# His mother, Mary, kneeling
0:40:01 > 0:40:03# Unto the Lord did pray
0:40:03 > 0:40:08# O tidings of comfort and joy
0:40:08 > 0:40:10# Comfort and joy
0:40:10 > 0:40:14# O tidings of comfort and joy
0:40:17 > 0:40:20# Now to the Lord sing praises
0:40:20 > 0:40:23# All you within this place
0:40:23 > 0:40:25# And with true love and brotherhood
0:40:25 > 0:40:29# Each other now embrace
0:40:29 > 0:40:30# This holy tide of Christmas
0:40:30 > 0:40:33# All others doth deface
0:40:33 > 0:40:38# O tidings of comfort and joy
0:40:38 > 0:40:40# Comfort and joy
0:40:40 > 0:40:48# O tidings of comfort and joy. #
0:40:53 > 0:40:56Thank you for joining us here in this wonderful setting,
0:40:56 > 0:41:00and for sharing the first few moments of Christmas with us.
0:41:00 > 0:41:04Wherever you are, may it be a happy and peaceful time for you.
0:41:04 > 0:41:07From the Church of the Holy Rude here in Stirling,
0:41:07 > 0:41:10goodnight and a very Merry Christmas.
0:41:10 > 0:41:16# Hark! the herald angels sing
0:41:16 > 0:41:20# Glory to the newborn King!
0:41:20 > 0:41:26# Peace on Earth and mercy mild
0:41:26 > 0:41:31# God and sinners reconciled
0:41:31 > 0:41:36# Joyful, all ye nations rise
0:41:36 > 0:41:41# Join the triumph of the skies
0:41:41 > 0:41:47# With th'angelic host proclaim
0:41:47 > 0:41:52# Christ is born in Bethlehem
0:41:52 > 0:41:57# Hark! the herald angels sing
0:41:57 > 0:42:05# Glory to the newborn King!
0:42:07 > 0:42:11# Christ, by highest heaven adored
0:42:11 > 0:42:17# Christ the everlasting Lord
0:42:17 > 0:42:22# Late in time behold Him come
0:42:22 > 0:42:26# Offspring of a virgin's womb
0:42:27 > 0:42:33# Veiled in flesh the Godhead see
0:42:33 > 0:42:38# Hail the incarnate Deity
0:42:38 > 0:42:43# Pleased as man with man to dwell
0:42:43 > 0:42:49# Jesus, our Emmanuel
0:42:49 > 0:42:54# Hark! the herald angels sing
0:42:54 > 0:43:02# Glory to the newborn King!
0:43:03 > 0:43:09# Hail! the heaven-born Prince of Peace
0:43:09 > 0:43:14# Hail! the Sun of Righteousness
0:43:14 > 0:43:19# Light and life to all He brings
0:43:19 > 0:43:25# Risen with healing in His wings
0:43:25 > 0:43:31# Mild, He lays His glory by
0:43:31 > 0:43:36# Born that man no more may die
0:43:36 > 0:43:42# Born to raise the sons of Earth
0:43:42 > 0:43:47# Born to give them second birth
0:43:47 > 0:43:55# Hark! the herald angels sing
0:43:55 > 0:44:03# Glory to the newborn King! #
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