Adult participants include a reading coach, two or three costumers and dressers, an organist or pianist, and a director to coordinate entrances and exits. With a good reading coach, even the younger children can read the simpler passages. Be sure to designate a head angel, head shepherd, and head child.
Children enter and exit while the carols are being sung.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. For to us a child is born, to us a Son is given. In him was life, and the life was the light of all people. Opening prayer Almighty God, you have filled us with the new light of the Word who became flesh and lived among us.