Hymn 82, "Of the Father's love begotten" | Psalm 119:1-8 | Ephesians 4:31-32 | Prudentius, "Epilogue"

Hymn 80, "From heaven above to earth I come" | Psalm 1 | 1 John 3:2 | E. B. Pusey, "It surpasses all thought, it amazes, it confounds"

New English Hymnal 153, "O let the heart beat high with bliss" | Psalm 138 | Philippians 2:10-11 | 12-century Latin, trans. Edward Caswall, "Jesus, the very thought of thee"

Hymn 97, "Dost thou in a manger lie" | Psalm 119:81-88 | Galatians 4:4-7 | William Drummond of Hawthornden, "Amazement at the Incarnation of God"

Hymn 98, "Unto us a boy is born" | Psalm 133 | Isaiah 62:2 | Richard Baukham, "The Song of the Shepherds"

Hymn 576, "God is love, and where true love is" | Psalm 92:1-4, 11-14 | 1 John 1:6-7 | Malcolm Guite, "John"

Hymn 243, "When Stephen, full of power and grace" | Psalm 31:1-5, 14-16 | Matthew 5:43-45a | T. S. Eliot, sermon on St Stephen's Day, "Murder in the Cathedral"

Hymn 82, "Of the Father's love begotten" | Psalm 82 | Revelation 21:1 | Scott Cairns, "Nativity"

Hymn 56, "O come, O come, Emmanuel," stanzas 5-8 | Psalm 130 | Isaiah 45:22-23 | Christina Rossetti, "Christmas Eve"