Aeterna Caeli Gloria (“O Star, for whose pure light the heaven makes room”)
Translation: Msgr. Ronald A. Knox
Second Tune: “Dublin” • 10 10 10 10
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Aeterna Caeli Gloria (“O Star, for whose pure light the heaven makes room”)
Translation: Msgr. Ronald A. Knox
First Tune: “Farley Castle” • 10 10 10 10
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“O Lord, I Am Not Worthy”
Tune: “Non Dignus” • 76 76
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O Filii Et Filiae (“Ye sons and daughters of the Lord”)
Translation: Fr. Edward Caswall, Oratorian
Tune: “O Filii Et Filiae” • 888 A
Complete verses in Latin are included alongside the English.
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“Jesus, Meek And Lowly” by Fr. Henry Augustine Collins, Cistercian
Tune: “St Martin” • 66 66 Trochaic
Pages 690-691
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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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.