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Christ, Mighty Saviour

Author: Alan G. McDougall; Anne K. LeCroy Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: Christmas Day 2 Year A First Line: Christ, mighty Saviour, Light of all creation Used With Tune: MIGHTY SAVIOUR Text Sources: Mozarabic, 10th century

As With Gladness Men of Old

Author: William Chatterton Dix Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 652 hymnals Topics: Christmas Day 2 Year A Lyrics: 1 As with gladness men of old did the guiding star behold, as with joy they hailed its light, leading onward, beaming bright, so, most gracious Lord, may we evermore your splendour see. 2 As with joyful steps they sped, to that lowly manger bed, there to bend the knee before Christ, whom heaven and earth adore; so may we with eager pace ever seek your throne of grace. 3 As they offered gifts most rare at that manger rude and bare, so may we with holy joy, pure and free from sin's alloy, all our costliest treasures bring, Christ, to you, our heavenly King. 4 Holy Jesus, every day keep us in the narrow way; and, when earthly things are past, bring our ransomed lives at last where they need no star to guide, where no clouds your glory hide. 5 In the heavenly country bright none shall need created light; you its light, its joy, its crown, you its sun which goes not down; there forever may we sing hallelujah to our King. Used With Tune: DIX

Of the Father's love begotten

Author: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, 348-413; John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 223 hymnals Topics: Christmas; Year A Christ the King; Years A, B, and C Christmas 2; Years A, B, and C Christmas Day Lyrics: 1 Of the Father's love begotten, ere the worlds began to be, he is Alpha and Omega; he the source, the ending he, of the things that are, that have been, and that future years shall see, evermore and evermore. 2 By his word they were created; he commanded; it was done: heav'en and earth and depths of ocean, in their threefold order one; all that grows beneath the shining of the light of moon and sun, evermore and evermore. 3 O that birth for ever blessèd when the Virgin, full of grace, by the Holy Ghost conceiving, bore the Saviour of our race, and the babe, the world’s Redeemer, first revealed his sacred face, evermore and evermore. 4 O ye heights of heav'n, adore him; angel hosts, his praises sing; pow'rs, dominions, bow before him, and extol our God and King: let no tongue on earth be silent, ev'ry voice in concert ring, evermore and evermore. 5 This is he whom seers and sages sang of old with one accord; whom the writings of the prophets promised in their faithful word; now he shines, the long-expected; let our songs declare his worth, evermore and evermore. Scripture: Colossians 1:13-20 Used With Tune: CORDE NATUS (DIVINYM MYSTERIUM)

Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light

Author: Johann Rist; Arthur Tozer Russell Meter: Irregular Appears in 62 hymnals Topics: Christmas Day 2 Year A Lyrics: 1 Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light, and usher in the morning; ye shepherds, shrink not with affright, but hear the angel's warning. This child, now born in infancy, our confidence and joy shall be, the power of Satan breaking, our peace eternal making. 2 All blessing, thanks and praise to thee, Lord Jesus Christ, be given: thou hast our brother deigned to be, our foes in sunder riven. O grant us through our day of grace with constant praise to seek thy face; grant us ere long in glory with praises to adore thee. Used With Tune: ERMUNTRE DICH Text Sources: German

Crown him with many crowns

Author: Matthew Bridges Appears in 817 hymnals Topics: Year A Advent 2; Year A Easter 2; Year B Advent 4; Year B Christ the King; Year B Easter 2; Year B Second Sunday Before Lent; Year C Easter 2; Year C Easter 6; Years A, B, and C Ascension Day; Years A, B, and C Christmas 2; Years A, B, and C Christmas Day; Ascensiontide; Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Redemption and Salvation Lyrics: 1 Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon his throne; hark, how the heav'nly anthem drowns all music but its own: awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee, and hail him as thy matchless King through all eternity. 2 Crown him the Virgin's Son, the God incarnate born, whose arm those crimson trophies won which now his brow adorn: Fruit of the mystic Rose, as of that Rose the Stem; the Root, whence mercy ever flows, the Babe of Bethlehem. 3 Crown him the Lord of love; behold his hands and side, those wounds, yet visible above in beauty glorified: no angel in the sky can fully bear that sight, but downward bends his burning eye at mysteries so bright. 4 Crown him the Lord of peace, whose pow'r a sceptre sways from pole to pole, that wars may cease, absorbed in prayer and praise: his reign shall know no end, and round his piercèd feet fair flow'rs of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet. 5 Crown him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time, Creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime. All hail, Redeemer, hail! for thou hast died for me; thy praise shall never, never fail throughout eternity. Scripture: Daniel 7:9 Used With Tune: DIADEMATA

At the name of Jesus

Author: Caroline Maria Noel, 1817-1877 Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 262 hymnals Topics: Year A Christ the King; Year A Easter 7; Year A Proper 21; Year B Lent 2; Year B Palm Sunday: Liturgy of the Passion; Year B Second Sunday Before Lent; Year C Christ the King; Year C Fourth Sunday Before Advent; Year C Palm Sunday: Liturgy of the Passion; Year C Proper 11; Years A, B, and C Ascension Day; Years A, B, and C Christmas 2; Years A, B, and C Christmas Day; Ascensiontide; Ascensiontide; Evangelism; Evangelism; Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Redemption and Salvation; Redemption and Salvation Lyrics: 1 At the name of Jesus ev'ry knee shall bow, ev'ry tongue confess him King of glory now: 'tis the Father's pleasure we should call him Lord, who, from the beginning, was the mighty Word. 2 At his voice creation sprang at once to sight, all the angel faces, all the hosts of light, thrones and dominations, stars upon their way, all the heavenly orders, in their great array. 3 Humbled for a season, to receive a name from the lips of sinners unto whom he came, faithfully he bore it spotless to the last, brought it back victorious, when from death he passed: 4 Bore it up triumphant with its human light, through all ranks of creatures, to the central height, to the throne of Godhead, to the Father's breast; filled it with the glory, of that perfect rest. 5 Name him, Christians, name him, with love strong as death, but with awe and wonder and with bated breath: he is God the Saviour, he is Christ the Lord, ever to be worshipped, trusted, and adored. 6 In your hearts enthrone him; there let him subdue all that is not holy, all that is not true: crown him as your Captain in temptation's hour; let his will enfold you in its light and power. 7 Surely, this Lord Jesus shall return again, with his Father's glory, with his angel train; for all wreaths of empire meet upon his brow, and our hearts confess him King of glory now. Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 1:7 Used With Tune: EVELYNS

Brightest and Best

Author: Reginald Heber Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 923 hymnals Topics: Year A Christmas Day 2; Year B Christmas Day 2; Year C Christmas Day 2 First Line: Brightest and best of the stars of the morning Lyrics: 1 Brightest and best of the stars of the morning, dawn on our midnight and lend us your aid. Star of the East the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. 2 Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining, God's holy Child with the beasts of the stall; Angels adore while this baby lies sleeping, Maker and Monarch and Savior of all. 3 Shall we not offer our costly devotion, fragrance of Edom and offerings divine, Gems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean, myrrh from the forest or gold from the mine? 4 Vainly we offer each ample oblation, vainly with gifts would his favor secure; Richer by far is the heart's adoration; dearer to God are the prayers of the poor. Scripture: Luke 2:10-14 Used With Tune: WALKER

I Danced in the Morning

Author: Sydney Carter Meter: Irregular Appears in 55 hymnals Topics: Christmas Day 2 Year C Refrain First Line: Dance, then, wherever you may be Lyrics: 1 I danced in the morning when the world was begun, and I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun, and I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth; at Bethlehem I had my birth. [Refrain:] Dance, then, wherever you may be; I am the Lord of the dance, said he, and I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be, and I’ll lead you all in the dance, said he. 2 I danced for the scribe and the pharisee, but they would not dance and they would not follow me; I danced for the fishermen, for James and John; they came with me and the dance went on. [Refrain] 3 I danced on the Sabbath and I cured the lame; the holy people said it was a shame; they whipped and they stripped and they hung me high, and they left me there on a cross to die. [Refrain] 4 I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black; it’s hard to dance with the devil on your back; they buried my body and they thought I’d gone, but I am the dance and I still go on. [Refrain] 5 They cut me down and I leap up high; I am the life that will never, never die; I’ll live in you if you’ll live in me; I am the Lord of the dance, said he. [Refrain] Used With Tune: LORD OF THE DANCE

Joy to the World

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 with repeat Appears in 1,909 hymnals Topics: Christmas Day 2 Year A; Christmas Day 2 Year B; Christmas Day 2 Year C First Line: Joy to the world! the Lord is come Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come: let earth receive her King! Let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven, and heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the world! the Savior reigns: let all their songs employ, while fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground: he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found. 4 He rules the earth with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love, and wonders of his love, and wonders, wonders of his love. Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

From Heaven Above to Earth I Come

Author: Martin Luther; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 149 hymnals Topics: Christmas Day 2 Year A Used With Tune: VOM HIMMEL HOCH