Madonna House: The Music of Advent and Christmas Vespers

A dozen beautiful musical selections from the Madonna House Advent celebrations, followed by a recording of Christmas Vespers, complete with prayers, psalms, readings, and songs.

Join the Madonna House community on their musical journey into the season of Advent and the beginning of Christmas…

In this new live recording from Our Lady of the Woods chapel in Combermere, Ontario, the Madonna House community invites you to join us in our musical tribute to the blessed season of Advent, followed by our celebration of Christmas Vespers. It is our hope that this extremely unique and prayerful recording will greatly enrich your own holiday celebrations in a refreshingly new way.

The first half of the album features a dozen beautiful musical selections from the Madonna House Advent celebrations, as performed by the Madonna House Schola.

The second half of the album features a recording of the Madonna House Christmas Vespers, complete with prayers, psalms, readings, and songs.

Advent Music Tracks

• The Voice of The Word
• Come, Though Long Expected Jesus
• Of The Father’s Love Begotten
• O Come Divine Messiah
• Rejoice, O Isaiah
• O House of Ephratha
• Comfort, Comfort Ye My People
• Gabriel’s Message
• Wake, Awake, For Night is Flying
• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
• The ‘O’ Antiphons
• O Night of Brilliant Light

Christmas Vespers Tracks

• Opening Prayer
• Christ is Born!
• Psalm 109
• Psalm 129
• Canticle
• Gospel Reading
• Hodie Christus Natus Est
• Magnificat
• Litany and Our Father
• Final Blessing (CD edition only)
• Song of Simeon
• Guadete
• ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (MP3 edition bonus track)

1 Compact Disc (CD), 58 mins. — Digitally recorded, Stereo — Madonna House Publications, 2001

MP3 audio files, 51 mins. — Digitally recorded, Stereo, 44100 Hz, 96 Kbps — Madonna House Publications, 2001 — (Please note: after payment, you will receive an e-mail with a download link for a large .zip file containing the music in .mp3 file format. We are unable to offer technical support for the use of MP3 audio files, so please be sure you know how to use the files with your music player before purchasing.) DRM-free.