The Assumption Of Our Lady (“If sin be captive, grace must find release”)
Text by Fr. Robert Southwell, Martyr of Jesus Christ
Tune: “Enemond” • 10 10 10 10 10 10
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“No Eye Hath Seen What Joys The Saints Obtain” by Saint Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel
Tune: “Enemond” • 10 10 10 10 10 10
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“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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“What Child Is This?”
Translation: William Chatterton Dix
Tune: “Greensleeves” • 87 87 R
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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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Huron Carol of St. Jean de Brébeuf (“Upon the birth of Jesus”)
Translation: Fr. Dominic Popplewell
Tune: “Une Jeune Pucelle” • 86 86 88 R
This famous Christmas carol was possibly written around 1642AD, when Saint Brébeuf was in Quebec, recuperating from a broken collarbone, which had left him in excruciating pain for many months.
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Quem Vidistis Pastores? Dicite (“Angels we have heard on high”)
Translation: Most Rev’d James Chadwick, Bishop of Hexham
Tune: “Gloria” • 77 77 R
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Corde Natus Ex Parentis (“Of the Father’s love begotten”)
Aurelius Prudentius, Christian Poet
Translation: Cento by the editors
Tune: “Divinum Mysterium” • 87 87 87 R
