“Hail The Day That Sees Him Rise”
Text: After Charles Wesley and Thomas Cotterill.
Tune: “Llanfair” • 77 77 A
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Surrexit Christus Hodie (“Jesus Christ is risen today”)
Tune: “Easter Hymn” • 77 77 A
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“My Song Is Love Unknown” by Samuel Crossman
Tune: “Love Unknown” • 66 66 44 44
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The Painful Cross Of Christ (“Whoever to virtue thinketh hard the way”) • This text was written by Saint Thomas More (Lord Chancellor of England) and published circa 1510AD.
Tune: “Lincoln’s Inn” • 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
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Puer Natus Est Nobis (“Bright and joyful is the morn”)
Based on the Introit for the Christmas Daytime Mass, which comes from Isaias 9.6.
Second Tune: “Llanfair” • 77 77 A
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“God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen”
The meaning of “God rest you merry” is “God keep you merry.” Note the archaic use of the word rest (“keep”)—indeed, this carol probably dates from the 16th century.
Tune: “God Rest You Merry” • 86 86 86 R
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“Once In Royal David’s City” by Cecil Frances Alexander
Tune: “Irby” • 87 87 77
