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. SecondTune: “Llanfair” • 77 77 A
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
Instantis Adventum Dei (“The coming of our God”)
Translation: Fr. Charles Coffin Tune: “Seán 8M” • 66 86 (SM) A “text only version” is included at page bottom, providing melodic flexibility.