Sunday 14 December 2025
Advent and Christmas Resources
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Third Sunday of Advent
Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Lighting of Advent candles
Useful hymns (using verses as appropriate). Singing the Faith Plus also offers a number of options for Advent Candle Liturgies
*Advent candles tell their story (StF 165)
‘Christmas is coming!’ The Church is glad to sing (StF 166)
God whose almighty word (StF 106)
*Light a candle in a darkened place (StF 174)
Light of the world, you stepped down in darkness (StF 175)
Like a candle flame, flickering small in our darkness (StF 176)
Longing for light, we wait in darkness (“Christ, be our light!”) (StF 706)
Round orange, round orange (StF 184) a Christingle carol
Also see Advent hymns in the hymns section of the resource hub
Isaiah 35: 1-10
God's spirit is in my heart (StF 404)
Joy to the world, the Lord is come! (StF 330)
Make way, make way for Christ the King (StF 264)
O come, O come, Immanuel (StF 180)
You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace (StF 487)
Psalm 146: 5-10
OR Luke 1: 47-55 (Magnificat)
Beauty for brokenness (StF 693)
Heaven shall not wait (StF 701)
I, the Lord of sea and sky (StF 663)
*My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour (StF 60)
Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord (StF 186)
The Angel Gabriel from heaven came (StF 187)
Also see StF's Walking with Micah hymn suggestions
James 5: 7-10
And I will wait now website only
Be still and know that I am God (StF 18)
Be still, for the presence of the Lord (StF 20)
Love divine, all loves excelling (StF 503)
Rejoice, the Lord is King! (StF 335)
Matthew 11: 2-11
Come, Lord, to our souls come down (StF 493)
Here is bread, here is wine (StF 586)
Joy to the world, the Lord is come! (StF 330)
Make way, make way, for Christ the king in splendour arrives (StF 264)
*My soul rejoices in God, my Saviour (StF 60)
O for a thousand tongues to sing (StF 364)
On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry announces that the Lord is nigh (StF 182)
The kingdom of God is justice and joy (StF 255)
Wild and lone the prophet’s voice (StF 189)
Your words to me are life and health (StF 164)
A prayer that God's story be our story
Story-telling God,
as you gathered the crowds in Galilee,
and stretched the imaginations of the affluent and defeated,
enter our world today.
Where the lonely stare at screens,
and deception comes via glamourous lies,
when we cultivate the ethos of insiders and outsiders –
speak into our hearts the depths of your love story.
A story of grace, hope and beautiful mercy.
A story of joy-filled expectation.
A story of new beginnings.
A story of hope.
Enable us to make love real.
May your story be our story.
Our end, our beginning and our whole life’s journey. Amen.
Helen Hollands, District Chair, East Anglia District
A contemplative breath prayer - Alternative Prayer
“And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10:24-25
(Breathe in) Fill us with abundant love.
(Breathe out) That we might build each other up.
A contemplative breath prayer
Alternative versions of You are a gift
Other versions coming soon
Cantonese with BSL
Dubbed into English with BSL