“The First Noël The Angel Did Say”
Tune: “The First Nowell” • 88 88 R
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“What Child Is This?”
Translation: William Chatterton Dix
Tune: “Greensleeves” • 87 87 R
Page 679
“Brightest And Best” by Reginald Heber
Tune: “Epiphany” • 11 10 11 10
Page 692
Meditationes Divi Augustini (“Ah, Holy Jesus, How Hast Thou Offended?”)
Translation: Robert Bridges
Tune: “Herzliebster Jesu” • 11 11 11 5
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Jordanis Oras Praevia (“On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry”)
Translation: Fr. Charles Coffin
Tune: “Winchester New” • 88 88 (LM)
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O Heiland Reiss Die Himmel Auf (“The heavens, Savior, open tear”)
German text based on Isaias by Fr. Father Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld, SJ (d. 1635); English translation by Fr. Dominic Popplewell.
Tune: “O Heiland Reiss” • 88 88 (LM)
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Veni Veni Emmanuel (“O come, O come, Emmanuel”)
Translation: Msgr. Ronald A. Knox
Tune: “Veni Veni Emmanuel” • 88 88 R
Page 658
“Lo! he comes with clouds descending” by John Cennick
Tune: “Helmsley” • 87 87 47
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“Gabriel Saluting, Heaven Thee Recruiting” by Fr. Dominic Popplewell
Tune: “Reginald” • 66 76 R
