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Tell Out, My Soul
Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 60 hymnals Topics: God Love and Mercy; God Majesty and Power; Scripture Songs; Worship First Line: Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord
Tell Out, My Soul
Who Is He in Yonder Stall
Author: B. R. Hanby Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 138 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Children's Hymns for Children; Christ Life and Ministry Refrain First Line: 'Tis the Lord, O wondrous story
Who Is He in Yonder Stall
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Author: Phillips Brooks, 1835-1893 Meter: 8.6.8.6.7.6.8.6 Appears in 846 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Advent and Nativity; Christmas; Jesus Advent and Nativity; Recessionals; Victory Lyrics: 1 O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
2 For Christ is born of Mary,
And gathered all above,
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wondering love.
O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth,
And praises sing to God the King,
And peace to men on earth!
3 How silently, how silently
The wondrous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may hear His coming,
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive Him, still
The dear Christ enters in.
4 O holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our sin and enter in,
Be born in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell;
O come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord Immanuel!
Amen. Scripture: Micah 5:2 Used With Tune: ST. LOUIS
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Like a candle flame (The candle song)
Author: Graham Kendrick Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: Like a candle flame Refrain First Line: God is with us, alleluia Used With Tune: [Like a candle flame]
Like a candle flame (The candle song)
Angels We Have Heard on High
Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refain Appears in 237 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Advent and Nativity; Christmas; Jesus Advent and Nativity 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
Echo back their joyous strains.
Refrain:
Gloria in excelsis Deo,
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
2 Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
Say what may the tidings be,
Which inspire your heavenly songs? [Refrain]
3 Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the newborn King. [Refrain]
4 See within a manger laid
Jesus, Lord of heaven and earth!
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
With us sing our Savior's birth. [Refrain] Scripture: Luke 2:13-14 Used With Tune: GLORIA Text Sources: Trad. French Carol
Angels We Have Heard on High
Infant holy
Author: E M G Reed, 1885-1933 Meter: 4.4.7.4.4.7.4.4.4.7 Appears in 95 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: Infant holy, infant lowly Used With Tune: INFANT HOLY Text Sources: Polish carol
Infant holy
Silent Night! Holy Night!
Author: Joseph Mohr Meter: 6.6.8.9.6 Appears in 624 hymnals Topics: Advent and Christmas First Line: Silent night! Holy night! 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,
Christ, the Saviour, is born!
Christ, the Saviour, is born!
3 Silent night! Holy night!
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth. Used With Tune: STILLE NACHT
Silent Night! Holy Night!
Joy to the world
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,860 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: Joy to the world, the Lord has come! Used With Tune: ANTIOCH
Joy to the world
Immanuel, We Sing Thy Praise
Author: Paul Gerhardt Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 34 hymnals Topics: Advent and Christmas Lyrics: 1 Immanuel, we sing Thy praise,
Thou Prince of Life, Thou Fount of Grace,
With all Thy saints, Thee, Lord, we sing;
Praise, honor, thanks, to Thee we bring.
2 E’er since the world began to be,
How many a heart hath longed for Thee!
And Thou, O long-expected Guest,
Hast come at last to make us blest!
3 Now art Thou here: we know Thee now;
In lowly manger liest Thou:
A Child, yet makest all things great;
Poor, yet the earth Thy robe of state.
4 Thus will I sing Thy praises here,
With joyful spirit year by year:
And in Thy courts of joy above
Forever will I sing Thy love.
Used With Tune: VOM HIMMEL HOCH DA KOMM ICH HER
Immanuel, We Sing Thy Praise
Once in royal David's city
Author: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-95; Horrobin; Leavers Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 408 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: IRBY
Once in royal David's city
Brightest and best
Author: Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 912 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: Brightest and best of the sons of the morning Used With Tune: EPIPHANY HYMN
Brightest and best
The first nowell
Author: Anon Meter: Irregular Appears in 401 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: The first nowell the angel did say Refrain First Line: Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell Used With Tune: THE FIRST NOWELL Text Sources: 17th century; Adapt.: Jubilate Hymns
The first nowell
What child is this
Author: William Chatterton Dix, 1837-98 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 204 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: What child is this, who, laid to rest Refrain First Line: This, this is Christ the King Used With Tune: GREENSLEEVES
What child is this
Child in the manger
Author: Mary MacDonald, 1789-1872; Lachlan Macbean, 1853-1931 Meter: 10.8.10.8 Appears in 27 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: Child in the manger, infant of Mary Used With Tune: BUNESSAN
Child in the manger
O come, let us adore Him
Author: Anon Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: ADESTE FIDELES
O come, let us adore Him
See, amid the winter's snow
Author: Edward Caswall, 1814-78 Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 164 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Refrain First Line: Hail, thou ever-blessed morn! Used With Tune: HUMILITY
See, amid the winter's snow
O come, O come Emmanuel
Author: J. M. Neale (1818-1866) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 509 hymnals Topics: God, Saviour Promised and Incarnate; The Remnant of Israel; Advent 1 The Advent Hope; Advent 3 The Forerunner; Advent 4 The Annunciation; Christmas 1 The Incarnation Scripture: Matthew 1:22-23 Used With Tune: VENI EMMANUEL Text Sources: Latin (thirteenth century); translation: and others
O come, O come Emmanuel
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Lorsque les mortels, en silence frémiront)
Author: Gerard Moultrie; G. de Lioncourt Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 172 hymnals Topics: The Church at Worship Holy Communion; liturgical Communion Songs; Adoration and Praise; Angels; Christian Year Advent; Deliverance; God Holiness; God Mystery; Hallelujah; Humility; Jesus Christ High Priest; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Jesus Christ Light; Jesus Christ Reign; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Mystery; Redemption; Second Coming; Worship; Advent 1 Year A; Advent 3 Year A; Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas 1 Year A; Reign of Christ Year A; Advent 3 Year B; Christmas 1 Year B; Epiphany 9 Year B; Trinity Sunday Year B; Trinity Sunday Year B; Reign of Christ Year B; Advent 1 Year C; Advent 2 Year C; Advent 4 Year C; Christmas Eve Year C; Epiphany 5 Year C; Proper 21 Year C Lyrics: 1 Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
and with awe and reverence stand;
ponder nothing earthly minded,
for with blessing in his hand
Christ our God to us approacheth
our full homage to demand.
2 King of kings, yet born of Mary,
as of old on earth he stood,
Lord of lords, in human vesture,
in the body and the blood,
he will give to all the faithful
his own self for heavenly food.
3 Rank on rank the host of heaven
spreads its vanguard on the way.
as the Light of light descendeth
from the realms of endless day,
that the powers of hell may vanish
as the darkness clears away.
4 At his feet the six-winged seraph;
cherubim with sleepless eye
veil their faces to the presence,
as with ceaseless voice they cry,
Hallelujah, hallelujah,
hallelujah, Lord Most High! Used With Tune: PICARDY Text Sources: Liturgy of St. James
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Lorsque les mortels, en silence frémiront)
Jesus Calls Us, O'er the Tumult
Author: Cecil Frances Alexander Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 926 hymnals Topics: Benevolence; Call of Christ; Christ Call of; Dedication of Life; Invitation to Consecration; Stewardship of Life and Talents
Jesus Calls Us, O'er the Tumult
O come, all you faithful
Author: Frederick Oakley, 1802-80; Horrobin; Leavers Meter: Irregular Appears in 732 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: ADESTE FIDELES Text Sources: Latin (18th century)
O come, all you faithful
Away in a manger
Author: Anon.; J T McFarland Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 547 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: Away in a manger, no crib for a bed Used With Tune: CRADLE SONG
Away in a manger
Good Christian men, rejoice
Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-66 Meter: Irregular Appears in 220 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: IN DULCI JUBILO
Good Christian men, rejoice
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 764 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Advent and Nativity; Christmas; Jesus Advent and Nativity Lyrics: 1 Angels, from the realms of glory,
Wing your flight o'er all the earth;
Ye, who sang creation's story
Now proclaim Messiah's birth:
Come and worship,
Come and worship,
Worship Christ the newborn King.
2 Shepherds, in the field abiding,
Watching o'er your flocks by night,
God with man is now residing;
Yonder shines the infant light:
Come and worship,
Come and worship,
Worship Christ the newborn King.
3 Sages, leave your contemplations;
Brighter visions beam afar;
Seek the great Desire of nations;
Ye have seen His natal star:
Come and worship,
Come and worship,
Worship Christ the newborn King.
Amen. Scripture: Matthew 2:2 Used With Tune: REGENT SQUARE
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Rejoice, the Lord is King!
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 742 hymnals Topics: Ascension and Reign; Christ Ascension; Worship First Line: Rejoice, the Lord is King: Your Lord and King adore Refrain First Line: Lift up your heart, lift up your voice Lyrics: 1 Rejoice, the Lord is King:
Your Lord and King adore!
Rejoice, give thanks and sing,
And triumph evermore.
Lift up your heart,
Lift up your voice!
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
2 Jesus, the Savior, reigns,
The God of truth and love;
When He has purged our stains,
He took his seat above;
Lift up your heart,
Lift up your voice!
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
3 His kingdom cannot fail,
He rules o'er earth and heav'n;
The keys of death and hell
Are to our Jesus giv'n:
Lift up your heart,
Lift up your voice!
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
4 Rejoice in glorious hope!
Our Lord and judge shall come
And take His servants up
To their eternal home:
Lift up your heart,
Lift up your voice!
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
Baptist Hymnal, 1991
Rejoice, the Lord is King!
As with gladness
Author: William Chatterton Dix, 1837-98; Horrobin; Leavers Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 639 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: As with gladness men of old Used With Tune: DIX
As with gladness
Isles of Sunshine
Author: Victor H. Job Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Seasonal and General Advent and Christmas First Line: Isles of sunshine in the West Used With Tune: [Isles of sunshine in the West]
Isles of Sunshine
Hark! the herald-angels sing
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D with refrain Appears in 1,329 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: MENDELSSOHN
Hark! the herald-angels sing
It came upon the midnight clear
Author: Edward Hamilton Sears, 1810-76 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 873 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: NOEL Text Sources: Adapt.: Jubilate Hymns
It came upon the midnight clear
While shepherds watched
Author: Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,102 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: While shepherds watched their flocks by night Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD
While shepherds watched
We three kings of Orient are
Author: John H Hopkins, 1820-91; Horrobin; Leavers Appears in 313 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Refrain First Line: O star of wonder, star of night Used With Tune: [We three kings of Orient are]
We three kings of Orient are
Good News From Heaven the Angels Bring
Author: Martin Luther Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 41 hymnals Topics: Advent and Christmas First Line: Good news from heav'n the angels bring Lyrics: 1 Good news from heav'n the angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a Child is giv'n,
To crown us with the joy of heav'n.
2 This is the Christ, our God and Lord,
Who in all need shall aid afford;
He will Himself our Saviour be,
And from our sins will set us free.
3 To us that blessedness He brings,
Which from the Father's bounty springs:
That in the heav'nly realm we may
With Him enjoy eternal day.
4 All hail, Thou noble Guest, this morn,
Whose love did not the sinner scorn:
In my distress Thou com'st to me,
What thanks shall I return to Thee?
5 Were earth a thousand times as fair,
Beset with gold and jewels rare,
She yet were far too poor to be
A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee.
6 Ah, dearest Jesus, holy Child,
Make Thee a bed, soft, undefiled,
Within my heart, that it may be
A quiet chamber kept for Thee.
7 Praise God upon His heavenly throne,
Who gave to us His only Son;
For this His hosts, on joyful wing,
A blest New Year of mercy sing. Used With Tune: VOM HIMMEL HOCH DA KOMM ICH HER
Good News From Heaven the Angels Bring
Christians, awake!
Author: John Byrom, 1692-1763 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 186 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: Christians, awake! salute the happy morn Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE
Christians, awake!
Come, Thou long-expected Jesus
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 749 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: STUTTGART
Come, Thou long-expected Jesus
Hail to the Lord's anointed
Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 843 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: CRÜGER
Hail to the Lord's anointed
Hark, my soul
Author: William Cowper, 1731-1800 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 687 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: Hark, my soul! it is the Lord Used With Tune: ST BEES
Hark, my soul
Hark, the glad sound
Author: Philip Dodderidge, 1702-51; Horrobin; Leavers Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 820 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: Hark, the glad sound! the Saviour comes Used With Tune: ST SAVIOUR
Hark, the glad sound
Thou didst leave Thy thorne
Author: Emily Elizabeth Steele Elliott, 1836-97 Meter: Irregular Appears in 417 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: Thou didst leave Thy throne and Thy kingly crown Used With Tune: MARGARET
Thou didst leave Thy thorne
Rejoice, All Ye Believers
Author: Laurentius Laurenti Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 335 hymnals Topics: Advent and Christmas Lyrics: 1 Rejoice, all ye believers,
And let your lights appear!
The evening is advancing,
And darker night is near.
The Bridegroom is arising,
And soon He draweth nigh:
Up, pray, and watch, and wrestle,--
At midnight comes the cry!
2 The watchers on the mountain
Proclaim the Bridegroom near;
Go meet Him as He cometh,
With allelujahs clear.
The marriage feast is waiting;
The gates wide open stand;
Up, up, ye heirs of glory,
The Bridegroom is at hand!
3 Ye saints, who here in patience
Your cross and suff'rings bore,
Shall live and reign forever,
When sorrow is no more.
Around the throne of glory
The Lamb ye shall behold,
In triumph cast before Him
Your diadems of gold!
4 Our Hope and Expectation,
O Jesus, now appear;
Arise, Thou Sun so longed for,
O'er this benighted sphere!
With hearts and hands uplifted,
We plead, O Lord, to see
The day of earth's redemption,
That brings us unto Thee! Used With Tune: HAF TRONES LAMPA FÄRDIG
Rejoice, All Ye Believers
In the bleak mid-winter
Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830-94 Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 86 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: CRANHAM
In the bleak mid-winter
Of the Father's heart begotten
Author: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (348-c. 413); Roby Furley Davis (1866--1937) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Angels; Christmas; Church Year Advent; Church Year Christmas; Creation; God in judgement and justice; Mary; Praise; Prophets; The Fourth Sunday of Advent Year A; The Fourth Sunday of Advent Year C Lyrics: 1 Of the Father's heart begotten
ere the world from chaos rose,
he is Alpha: from that Fountain,
all that is and hath been flows;
he is Omega, of all things
yet to come the mystic Close,
evermore and evermore.
2 By his word was all created;
he commanded and 'twas done;
earth and sky and boundless ocean,
universe of three in one,
all that sees the moon's soft radiance,
all that breathes beneath the sun,
evermore and evermore.
3 He assumed this mortal body,
frail and feeble, doomed to die,
that the race from dust created
might not perish utterly,
which the dreadful Law had sentenced
in the depths of hell to lie,
evermore and evermore.
4 O how blest that wondrous birthday,
when the Maid the curse retrieved,
brought to birth mankind's salvation,
by the Holy Ghost conceived,
and the Babe, the world's Redeemer,
in her loving arms received,
evermore and evermore.
5 This is he, whom seer and sybil
sang in ages long gone by;
this is he of old revealèd
in the page of prophecy;
lo! he comes, the promised Saviour;
let the world his praises cry!
evermore and evermore.
6 Sing, ye heights of heaven, his praises;
Angels and Archangels, sing!
wheresoe'er ye be, ye faithful,
let your joyous anthems ring,
every tongue his name confessing,
countless voices answering,
evermore and evermore. Scripture: Luke 1:26-38 Used With Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM
Of the Father's heart begotten
On Christmas night all Christians sing
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 49 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: SUSSEX CAROL Text Sources: Words collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
On Christmas night all Christians sing
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
Author: John W. Work, Jr., 1872-1925 Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 108 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Advent and Nativity; Christmas; Jesus Advent and Nativity First Line: While shepherds kept their watching Lyrics: Refrain:
Go, tell it on the mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere;
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born.
1 While shepherds kept their watching
O'er silent flocks by night,
Behold, throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light. [Refrain]
2 The shepherds feared and trembled
When lo! above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our Savior's birth. [Refrain]
3 Down in a lowly manger
Our humble Christ was born,
And God sent us salvation
That blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain] Scripture: Luke 2:17 Used With Tune: GO TELL IT
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
Come hither, ye faithful, triumphantly sing
Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 159 hymnals Topics: Advent and Christmas Lyrics: 1 COME hither, ye faithful, triumphantly sing;
Come see in the manger our Saviour and King!
To Bethlehem hasten with joyful accord;
O come ye, come hither to worship the Lord!
2 True Son of the Father, He comes from the skies;
To be born of a Virgin He does not despise:
To Bethlehem hasten with joyful accord:
O come ye, come hither to worship the Lord!
3 Hark, hark to the angels all singing in heaven,
"To God in the highest all glory be given!"
To Bethlehem hasten with joyful accord:
O come ye, come hither to worship the Lord!
4 To Thee, then, O Jesus, this day of Thy birth,
Be glory and honor through heaven and earth.
True Godhead incarnate, omnipotent Word!
O come, let us hasten to worship the Lord!
Come hither, ye faithful, triumphantly sing
I cannot tell
Author: William Young Fullerton, 1857-1932 Meter: Irregular Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Advent and Christmas First Line: I cannot tell why He, whom angels worship Used With Tune: LONDONDERRY AIR
I cannot tell
Gloria a Dios (Glory to God)
Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany First Line: ¡Gloria a Dios, Gloria a Dios (Glory to God, glory to God) Lyrics: ¡Gloria a Dios, Gloria a Dios,
Gloria en los cielos!
¡Gloria a Dios, Gloria a Dios,
Gloria en los cielos!
¡A Dios la gloria por siempre!
¡A Dios la gloria por siempre!
¡Aleluya, amén!
Glory to God, glory to God,
glory in the highest!
Glory to God, glory to God,
glory in the highest!
To God be glory forever!
To God be glory forever!
Alleluia! Amen!
Scripture: Luke 2:14 Used With Tune: GLORIA PERU Text Sources: Traditional
Gloria a Dios (Glory to God)
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
Author: Patterson Deane Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Seasonal and General Advent and Christmas First Line: Shepherds saw the angels Used With Tune: [Shepherds saw the angels]
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
How wondrous the birth of Jesus (Wonani kupswalwa ka Jesu)
Author: Zacharias M. Uqueio; S T Kimbrough, Jr. Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Advent and Christmas First Line: How wondrous the birth of Jesus Christ! Refrain First Line: Sing, hallelujah! Used With Tune: [How wondrous the birth of Jesus Christ]
How wondrous the birth of Jesus (Wonani kupswalwa ka Jesu)
Of the Father's Love Begotten
Author: John Mason Neale; Aurelius Clemens Prudentius Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 214 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Christmas; Adoration and Praise; Angels; Christian Year Advent; Christian Year Christmas; Creation; God Creator; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise; Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy; Jesus Christ Divinity; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Jesus Christ Lord of Life; Jesus Christ name; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Music and Singing; Mystery; Praise; Prophets; Redemption; Second Coming; Service Music Doxologies; Testimony; Trinity; Word of God; Worship; Advent 4 Year A; Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Day 1 Year A; Christmas Day 2 Year A; Christmas 2 Year A; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year A; Proper 13 Year A; Reign of Christ Year A; Advent 2 Year B; Advent 4 Year B; Christmas Day 2 Year B; Christmas Day 2 Year B; Christmas 2 Year B; All Saints Year B; Reign of Christ Year B; Advent 3 Year C; Christmas Day 2 Year C; Baptism of Jesus Year C; Easter 4 Year C; Proper 28 Year C; Reign of Christ Year C; Reign of Christ Year C Lyrics: 1 Of the Father's love begotten,
ere the worlds began to be,
Christ is Alpha and Omega,
Christ the source, the ending he,
of the things that are and have been,
and that future years shall see,
evermore and evermore.
2 At his word the worlds were framed.
He commanded, it was done:
heaven and earth and depths of ocean
in their threefold order one;
all that grows beneath the shining
of the moon and burning sun,
evermore and evermore.
3 O that birth for ever blessèd!
When the Virgin, full of grace,
by the Holy Ghost conceiving,
bare the Saviour of our race,
and the babe, the world's redeemer,
first revealed his sacred face,
evermore and evermore.
4 This is he whom seers in old time
chanted of with one accord,
whom the voices of the prophets
promised in their faithful word;
now he shines, the long-expected;
let creation praise its Lord,
evermore and evermore.
5 O ye heights of heaven, adore him;
angel hosts, his praises sing;
powers, dominions, bow before him,
and extol our God and King;
let no tongue on earth be silent,
every voice in concert ring,
evermore and evermore.
6 Christ, to thee with God most blessèd,
and, O Holy Ghost, to thee,
hymn and chant and high thanksgiving,
and unwearied praises be,
honour, glory, and dominion
and eternal victory,
evermore and evermore. Used With Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM
Of the Father's Love Begotten
Hark! what mean those holy voices
Author: John Cawood Appears in 723 hymnals Topics: Angels; Christ First Advent; Christ Majesty of; Christ names and offices of; Christmas Lyrics: 1 Hark! what mean those holy voices
Sweetly sounding through the skies?
Lo! th'angelic host rejoices;
Heavenly hallelujahs rise.
2 Listen to the wondrous story,
Which they chant in hymns of joy:
"Glory in the highest, glory,
Glory be to God most high!
3 "Peace on earth, good will from heaven,
Reaching far as man is found;
Souls redeemed, and sins forgiven!
Loud our golden harps shall sound.
4 "Christ is born, the great Anointed;
Heaven and earth His glory sing!
Oh, receive whom God appointed
For your Prophet, Priest, and King.
5 "Hasten, mortals, to adore Him,
Learn His name, and taste His joy,
Till in heaven we sing before Him,
'Glory be to God most high!'"
Amen. Used With Tune: WILMOT
Hark! what mean those holy voices
Your kingdom come, O God!
Author: L. Hensley (1824-1905) Meter: 6.6.6.6 Appears in 129 hymnals Topics: God's World Nations, Justice, and Peace; Advent 1 The Advent Hope; Christmas 1 The Incarnation; Lent 4, The King and the Kingdom Transfiguration; Pentecost 12 The Witnessing Community; Pentecost 13 The Suffering Community; Pentecost 15 Those in Authority Lyrics: 1 Your kingdom come, O God!
your rule, O Christ, begin;
break with thine iron rod
the tyrannies of sin,
2 Where is your reign of peace
and purity and love?
When shall all hatred cease,
as in the realms above?
3 When comes the promised time,
the end of strife and war;
when lust, oppression, crime
and greed shall be no more?
4 O Lord our God, arise
and come in your great might!
revive our longing eyes
which languish for your sight.
5 As rebels scorn your name
and wolves devour your fold,
by many deeds of shame
we learn that love grows cold.
6 On nations near or far
thick darkness gathers yet:
arise, O Morning Star,
arise and never set! Used With Tune: ST. CECILIA
Your kingdom come, O God!
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