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Angels We Have Heard on High
Author: Earl Marlatt, 1892-1940 Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 266 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas Refrain First Line: Gloria in excelsis Deo Lyrics: 1 Angels we have heard on high
sweetly singing o'er the plains
and the mountains in reply
echoing their joyous strains.
Refrain:
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
2 Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why these songs of happy cheer?
What great brightness did you see?
What glad tidings did you hear? [Refrain]
3 See him in a manger laid
who the angels praise above;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
while we raise our hearts in love. [Refrain]
Used With Tune: GLORIA
Angels We Have Heard on High
There's a Wideness in Your Mercy
Author: Frederick William Faber, 1814-1863 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 916 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Worship Lyrics: 1 There’s a wideness in your mercy
like the wideness of the sea;
there’s a kindness in your justice
which is more than liberty.
2 But we make your love too narrow
by false limits of our own,
and we magnify your strictness
with a zeal you will not own.
3 For the love of God is broader
than the measures of our minds
and the heart of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind. Used With Tune: CHARLESTON
There's a Wideness in Your Mercy
Stille Nacht
Author: Joseph Mohr, 1792-1848 Meter: Irregular Appears in 97 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas First Line: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Quiet night, holy night) Lyrics: GERMAN -
1 Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht.
Alles schläft, einsam wacht
nur das traute hoch heilige Paar.
Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar,
schlaf in himmlischer Ruh,
schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!
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1 Quiet night, holy night,
all asleep! Save tonight
watch a dear and holy pair
their sweet boy with curly hair,
sleep in heavenly peace,
sleep in heavenly peace.
2 Quiet night, holy night,
shepherds first know the light
through the angel allelu,
bringing news to me, to you:
Christ who frees is here,
Christ who frees is here. Used With Tune: STILLE NACHT
Stille Nacht
Dear Mother-Father of Us All
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 522 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings The Christian Spirit Lyrics: 1 Dear Mother-Father of us all,
forgive our foolish ways.
Reclothe us in our rightful mind,
in purer lives thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise.
2 In simple trust like theirs who heard, beside the Syrian sea,
the gracious calling of the Word,
let us, like them, our faith restored,
rise up and follow thee.
3 O Sabbath rest by Galilee,
O calm of hills above,
where Jesus knelt to share with thee
the silence of eternity,
interpreted by love.
4 With that deep hush subduing all
our words and works that drown
the tender whisper of thy call,
as noiseless let thy blessing fall
as fell thy manna down.
5 Drop thy still dews of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls the strain and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of thy peace. Used With Tune: REST
Dear Mother-Father of Us All
It Came upon the Midnight Clear
Author: Edmund Hamilton Sears, 1810-1876 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 898 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas Lyrics: 1 It came upon the midnight clear,
that glorious song of old,
from angels bending near the earth,
to touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, to all good will,
from heaven the news we bring."
The world in solemn stillness lay
to hear the angels sing.
2 Still through the cloven skies they come,
with peaceful wings unfurled;
and still their heavenly music floats
o'er all the weary world.
Above its sad and lowly plains
they bend on hovering wing;
and ever o'er its Babel sounds
the blessed angels sing.
3 But with the woes of war and strife
the world has suffered long;
beneath the angel-strain have rolled
two thousand years of wrong;
and we who fight the wars hear not
the love song which they bring.
O hush the noise of battle strife,
and hear the angels sing.
4 For, lo! the days are hastening on,
by prophet bards foretold,
when with the ever-circling years
comes round the age of gold:
when peace shall over all the earth
its ancient splendors fling,
and the whole world give back the song
which now the angels sing. Used With Tune: CAROL
It Came upon the Midnight Clear
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 516 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Advent Lyrics: 1 O come, O come, Emmanuel,
and with your captive children dwell.
Give comfort to all exiles here,
and to the aching heart bid cheer.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come within as Love to dwell.
2 O come, you Splendor very bright,
as joy that never yields to might.
O come, and turn all hearts to peace,
that greed and war at last shall cease.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come within as Truth to dwell.
3 O come, you Dayspring, come and cheer
our spirits by your presence here.
O dawn in every broken soul
as vision that can see the whole.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come within as Light to dwell.
4 O come, you Wisdom from on high,
from depths that hide within a sigh,
to temper knowledge with our care,
to render every act a prayer.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come within as Hope to dwell. Used With Tune: VENI EMMANUEL Text Sources: Latin c. 9th cent.
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
O God, Our Help in Ages Past
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,258 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Psalms Lyrics: 1 O God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come,
our shelter from the stormy blast,
and our eternal home:
2 Before the hills in order stood,
or earth received its frame,
from everlasting thou art God,
to endless years the same.
3 A thousand ages in thy sight
are like an evening gone,
short as the watch that ends the night
before the rising sun.
4 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
soon bears us all away;
we fly forgotten, as a dream
dies at the opening day.
5 O God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come,
be thou our guard while troubles last,
and our eternal home.
Scripture: Psalm 90 Used With Tune: ST. ANNE
O God, Our Help in Ages Past
There Is a Balm in Gilead
Appears in 114 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings First Line: Sometimes I feel discouraged Lyrics: Refrain:
There is a balm in Gilead
To make the wounded whole;
There is a balm in Gilead
To heal the sin-sick soul.
1 Sometimes I feel discouraged
And think my work's in vain,
But then the Holy Spirit
Revives my soul again. [Refrain]
2 If you cannot preach like Peter,
If you cannot pray like Paul,
You can tell the love of Jesus
and say, "He died for all!" [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Sometimes I feel discouraged] Text Sources: African-American spiritual, slavery period
There Is a Balm in Gilead
Silent Night, Holy Night
Author: Joseph Mohr, 1792-1848 Meter: Irregular Appears in 648 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas Lyrics: 1 Silent night, holy night,
all is calm, all is bright
round yon virgin mother and child.
Holy infant so tender and mild,
sleep in heavenly peace,
sleep in heavenly peace.
2 Silent night, holy night,
shepherds quake at the sight,
glories stream from heaven afar,
heavenly hosts sing, "Alleluia,"
sleep in heavenly peace,
sleep in heavenly peace.
3 Silent night, holy night!
child of God, love’s pure light
radiant beams from thy holy face,
with the dawn of redeeming grace,
sleep in heavenly peace,
sleep in heavenly peace. Used With Tune: STILLE NACHT
Silent Night, Holy Night
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Author: John Henry Hopkins, Jr., 1820-1891 Meter: Irregular Appears in 321 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Epiphany Refrain First Line: O star of wonder, star of light Lyrics: 1 We three kings of Orient are;
bearing gifts we traverse afar,
field and fountain, moor and mountain,
following yonder star.
Refrain:
O star of wonder, star of light,
star with royal beauty bright,
westward leading, still proceeding,
guide us to this perfect night.
2 Frankincense to offer have I,
incense owns a Deity nigh.
Prayer and praising, all are raising,
worship God most high. [Refrain]
3 Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
breathes a life of gathering gloom;
sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,
sealed in the stone-cold tomb. [Refrain]
4 Born a babe on Bethlehem's plain,
gold I bring to crown him again,
love forever, ceasing never,
in our hearts to reign. [Refrain] Used With Tune: KINGS OF ORIENT
We Three Kings of Orient Are
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