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O, how joyfully

Author: Brian Arthur Wren, 1936-; Johann D. Falk; Heinrich Holzschüher; Harris Loewen Meter: 5.5.7.4.4.7 Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O, how joyfully, O, how hopefully, waits the world on Christmas Eve! Love comes healing, God revealing. Friends, be joyful and believe. 2 O, how joyfully, O, how peacefully, sleeps the world on Christmas Night! Sins are covered, grace discovered. In our darkness shines the light. 3 O, how joyfully, O, how thankfully, wakes the world on Christmas Morn! God has spoken, death is broken. Alleluia, Christ is born! Topics: Christmas; Christmas Eve; Jesus Christ Incarnation Used With Tune: SICILIAN MARINERS

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O SANCTISSIMA

Appears in 650 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert Shaw; Alice Parker Tune Sources: The European Magazine and London Review, 1792 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 56543 45654 35567 Used With Text: Oh, how joyfully

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O du fröhliche (Oh, How Joyfully)

Author: Johann D. Falk; Heinrich Holzschuher; Harris Loewen; Brian Wren Hymnal: Voices Together #254 (2020) Meter: 5.5.7.4.4.7 Lyrics: 1 O du fröhliche, O du selige, gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit! Welt ging verloren; Christ ist geboren: Freue, freue dich, O Christenheit! 2 O du fröhliche, O du selige, gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit! Christ ist erschienen, uns zu versühnen, Freue, freue dich, O Christenheit! 3 O du fröhliche, O du selige, gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit! Himmlische Heere jauchzen dir Ehre. Freue, freue dich, O Christenheit! 1 Oh, how joyfully, oh, how hopefully, waits the earth on Christmas eve! Love comes healing, God revealing. Friends, be joyful and believe! 2 Oh, how joyfully, oh, how peacefully, sleeps the earth on Christmas night! Sins are covered, grace discovered. In our darkness shines the light! 3 Oh, how joyfully, oh, how thankfully, wakes the earth on Christmas morn! God has spoken, death is broken. Alleluia! Christ is born! Topics: Incarnation; Joy; Salvation Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 Languages: German Tune Title: O SANCTISSIMA

Oh, How Joyfully

Author: Brian Wren Hymnal: Voices United #57 (1996) Meter: 5.5.7.4.4.7 Lyrics: 1 Oh, how joyfully, oh, how hopefully, waits the world on Christmas Eve! Love comes healing, God revealing. Friends, be joyful and believe! 2 Oh, how joyfully, oh, how peacefully, sleeps the world on Christmas Night! Sins are covered, grace discovered. In our darkness shines the light! 3 Oh, how joyfully, oh, how thankfully, wakes the world on Christmas Morn! God has spoken, death is broken. Hallelujah! Christ is born! Topics: The Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Christmas; Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy; Christmas Day 1 Year A Languages: English Tune Title: SICILIAN MARINERS

Oh, How Joyfully

Author: Brian Wren, 1936- Hymnal: Worship and Rejoice #208 (2003) Meter: 5.5.7.4.4.7 Lyrics: 1 Oh, how joyfully, oh, how hopefully, waits the world on Christmas Eve! Love comes healing, God revealing. Friends, be joyful and believe! 2 Oh, how joyfully, oh, how peacefully, sleeps the world on Christmas Night! Sins are covered, grace discovered. In our darkness shines the light! 3 Oh, how joyfully, oh, how thankfully, wakes the world on Christmas Morn! God has spoken, death is broken. Alleluia! Christ is born! Scripture: Revelation 19:1 Languages: English Tune Title: SICILIAN MARINERS

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Brian A. Wren

b. 1936 Person Name: Brian Wren, 1936- Author of "Oh, How Joyfully" in Worship and Rejoice Brian Wren (b. Romford, Essex, England, 1936) is a major British figure in the revival of contemporary hymn writing. He studied French literature at New College and theology at Mansfield College in Oxford, England. Ordained in 1965, he was pastor of the Congregational Church (now United Reformed) in Hockley and Hawkwell, Essex, from 1965 to 1970. He worked for the British Council of Churches and several other organizations involved in fighting poverty and promoting peace and justice. This work resulted in his writing of Education for Justice (1977) and Patriotism and Peace (1983). With a ministry throughout the English-speaking world, Wren now resides in the United States where he is active as a freelance lecturer, preacher, and full-time hymn writer. His hymn texts are published in Faith Looking Forward (1983), Praising a Mystery (1986), Bring Many Names (1989), New Beginnings (1993), and Faith Renewed: 33 Hymns Reissued and Revised (1995), as well as in many modern hymnals. He has also produced What Language Shall I Borrow? (1989), a discussion guide to inclusive language in Christian worship. Bert Polman

Johann Daniel Falk

1768 - 1826 Person Name: Johann D. Falk Author of "O, how joyfully " in Together in Song Falk, Johannes Daniel, was born Oct. 28, 1768, at Danzig, where his father was a wig-maker. With a stipend from the Town Council of Danzig, he entered the University of Halle in 1791, where he studied the classics and theology, remaining as a private tutor for some time after completing his course. In 1798 he married and settled as a man of letters at Weimar, where he was welcomed by Herder, Goethe and Wieland, and where he gained some reputation as a writer of satirical works. During the Napoleonic wars, after the battle of Jena, 1806, Falk found his true vocation as a philanthropist, first in the field hospitals and then in the care of destitute children. With the court preacher Horn he founded the "Society of Friends in Need," and shortly thereafter began his Refuge for poor children; receiving them without restrictions as to age, birth, country or creed, and after giving them a godly industrial training sought to find the girls places as domestic servants and to apprentice the boys to trade. He lived to see the Refuge in permanent buildings (which in 1829 were made into a public training school for neglected children, under the name of Falk's Institute) and saw some 300 of his scholars fairly started in life. He died at Weimar, Feb. 14, 1826 (Kraus, pp. 120-125; Allg. Deutsche Biographie, vi. 549-551). His hymns are few in number, but one has attained considerable popularity:— 0 du fröhliche. [For the Great Festivals.] Written in 1816, and included in his Auserlesene Werke, Leipzig, 1819, vol. i. p. 357, in 3 stanzas of 6 lines, entitled "Hymn for all the Three Festivals." Stanzas i. is for Christmas, ii. for Easter, iii. for Whitsuntide. This form is No. 667 in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851, but being easy of expansion we find in the Speier Gesang-Buch 1859, No. 247, two other stanzas for each season added — in all 9 stanzas. The only translation in common use is:— Hail, thou glorious, thou victorious. A free version by Dr. Kennedy of Falk's three stanzas, with original stanzas for Sunday and for the Second Advent, in his Hymnologia Christiana, 1863. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)