FESTIVAL of LESSONS and CAROLS for CHRISTMAS Royal Hospital Chelsea Wednesday 16 December 2020 WELCOME
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FESTIVAL OF LESSONS AND CAROLS FOR CHRISTMAS Royal Hospital Chelsea Wednesday 16 December 2020 WELCOME As Chairman of Combat Stress, our charity’s crucial support Happy I’d like to welcome you to our particularly while the ongoing annual Festival of Lessons and COVID-19 safety measures Christmas... Carols. This service, like most continue. The platform includes of 2020, is so very different to new self-help psychoeducation what we expected but we are so materials and intensive psychological pleased that you are able to join rehabilitation programmes delivered us virtually this evening and I remotely, such as live group-based CDS Defence & hope this programme will help webinars and workshops and 1:1 guide you through the event. assessments and treatment. Security wishes 2020 has been a year of huge COVID-19 has affected us all but Combat Stress and change for us all but when the some of those veterans with PTSD all its supporters a pandemic began in March, Combat and other complex mental health Stress was already part-way through conditions may have found it even restful Christmas & its own transformation to provide a harder to cope. We are doing all we peaceful New Year. refocused service for veterans with can to support those who so need complex mental health needs and our help but today we are 75% reliant their families. on donations from people like you. We rapidly adapted to support Please help make a difference to lives veterans during COVID-19 through of veterans by making a donation this the provision of online self-help evening via combatstress.org.uk. resources, virtual peer support Thank you again for joining us group meetings and 1:1 video call and I wish you and your families a therapy sessions with our expert Merry Christmas and a New Year full clinicians. We have also spent much of hope. of this year adjusting our service to • The Bramery, 44 Alstone Lane, Cheltenham. GL518HE. • 160 Rombourne, Aztec West, Bristol, BS32 4TU. increasingly focus on veterans with [email protected] • www.cdsds.uk the most complex needs. An element of this new service is our new digital treatment and support platform. The platform will help Giles Peel ensure more veterans can access Chairman, Combat Stress COMBAT STRESS_A5LSAD_3MMBLEED_.indd 1 04/11/2020 10:02:38 OUR READERS We are grateful to the supporters who recorded the Lessons in tonight’s service and delighted that they could be part of our virtual event this year. Here’s why they support the charity: So very pleased to play a part in the Combat Stress virtual carol service. I am delighted to be involved It is the very least I can do to say in tonight’s Carol Service and thank you for the tireless work they read for Combat Stress. The do in helping our serving personnel services provided by the charity and veteran community with their are invaluable to some former mental health.” servicemen and women. I am proud to be here with you all this evening.” Sergeant Major Glenn Haughton OBE Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chiefs of Dewi Treharne Staff Committee Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Last year was the first year I had attended the Festival of Lessons and Carols in my capacity as Chairman of Combat Stress. In the twelve months since, life has changed enormously I’m really honoured to be helping for us all but for some of those Combat Stress. They do such struggling with PTSD, it has become wonderful work and are needed now even more challenging. Thank you more than ever. I’ve loved being part for joining us this evening – we really of such a joyful event.” appreciate your support.” Lorraine Kelly Giles Peel TV Presenter Chariman, Combat Stress Helping to make this a continued as a Music and Organ special evening are: Scholar at Bedford School; he subsequently read Law and held Joshua Ryan – Organ Scholar THE ROYAL a Choral Scholarship at Gonville Joshua Ryan is a postgraduate and Caius College, Cambridge and organ student at the Royal studied as a pianist at the Royal Academy of Music, where he Academy of Music with Malcolm HOSPITAL CHELSEA studies on a scholarship with Martineau and Colin Stone. Professor David Titterington. He is currently Organ Scholar of the The Reverend Steven Brookes – Our venue for the service this Some 300 Army veterans live at Royal Hospital, Chelsea, where Chaplain evening is The Royal Hospital the Royal Hospital today, including he regularly accompanies the The Reverend Steven Brookes has Chelsea, home of the Chelsea those who have served in Korea, the professional choir. been ordained for over thirty years. Pensioners. Founded in 1682 by Falkland Islands, Cyprus, Northern He has served as a Chaplain in the William Vann – Director of Music Ireland and World War II. Others may Royal Navy ashore and afloat. In King Charles II for “the relief and William Vann is the Organist and not have served in campaigns, but parish life he has served in the north succour” of veterans, it admitted its Director of Music at the Royal all understand what it means to be a and in the south of England and first Chelsea Pensioners in 1692, Hospital, the fifteenth holder of soldier and the potential sacrifice that came to the Royal Hospital after ten among whom were some of those the post since 1692. His musical it entails. years as Rector of Liverpool. injured at the Battle of Sedgemoor. education began while a Chorister Designed by Sir Christopher Wren, of King’s College, Cambridge and the Royal Hospital is one of the Chapel Choir most visually stunning landmarks The Chapel Choir of the Royal in London, sitting beside the River Hospital Chelsea is one of the finest professional church choirs in the UK; Thames opposite Battersea Park. its members regularly sing with many Chelsea Pensioners of the world’s leading consort groups, The Chelsea Pensioners are the such as The Sixteen, Tallis Scholars, iconic faces of the UK’s veteran Stile Antico and Monteverdi Choir. community. At the Royal Hospital The Choir sings Choral Matins in the Chelsea, they are offered excellent Wren Chapel at the Royal Hospital accommodation, comradeship and Chelsea every Sunday at 11am the highest standards of care in (a service which is normally open to the general public), and provides recognition of their loyal service to the music at carol services, the Nation. Any former soldier of the weddings and other events at British Army over the age of 65, who the Royal Hospital. is facing spending their advanced years alone, can apply for residence as a Chelsea-Pensioner. The Royal Hospital Chelsea Chapel thalesgroup.com The people we all rely on LESSONS AND CAROLS to make the world go round, Conducted by The Reverend Steven Brookes, Chaplain The Royal Hospital Chelsea they rely on Thales INTROIT CONGREGATIONAL The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea CAROL Stille Nacht O Come, All Ye Faithfull Music: Franz Gruber (1787-1863), arr. J. F. Wade (c.1711-1786), Donald Cashmore (1926-2013) arr. David Willcocks (1919-2015) Text: Josef Mohr (1792-1848) O come, all ye faithful, Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht! Joyful and triumphant, Alles schläft; einsam wacht O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem; Nur das traute, hochheilige Paar. Come and behold him Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar, Born the King of Angels: Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh’! O come let us adore him, Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh’! O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, Christ the Lord! Gottes Sohn, o wie lacht Lieb’ aus deinem göttlichen Mund, God of God, Da uns schlägt die rettende Stund’. Light of light, Christ, in deiner Geburt! Lo! he abhors not the Virgin’s womb; Christ, in deiner Geburt! Very God, begotten, not created: Silent night, holy night! O come let us adore him, All is calm all is bright O come let us adore him, ‘Round yon virgin Mother and Child, O come let us adore him, Holy infant so tender and mild; Christ the Lord! Proud to support the Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sing, choirs of angels, Combat Stress Festival of Sing in exultation, Silent night, holy night, Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above; Lessons and Carols 2020 Son of God, love’s pure light. Glory to God in the highest: Radiant beams from Thy holy face, O come let us adore him, With the dawn of redeeming grace, O come let us adore him, Search : Thalesgroup Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth. O come let us adore him, Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth. Christ the Lord! THE BIDDING PRAYER and blessed may he be, Both Father, Son and Holy Ghost, The Reverend Steven Brookes through all eternity. Chaplain The next good joy that Mary had it was the joy of four, To see her own son Jesus Christ to THE CHAPEL CHOIR read the bible o’er. To read the bible o’er, good man, and OF THE ROYAL blessed may he be, Both Father, Son and Holy Ghost, HOSPITAL CHELSEA through all eternity. Joys Seven The next good joy that Mary had it English Trad., arr. Stephen Cleobury was the joy of five, (1948-2019) To see her own son Jesus Christ to The first good joy that Mary had it bring the dead alive. was the joy of one, To bring the dead alive, good man, To see the blessed Jesus Christ, and blessed may he be, when he was first her son Both Father, Son and Holy Ghost, When he was first her son, good through all eternity.