O Amor Quam Ecstaticus (“O love, how deep, how broad, how high”)
Fr. Thomas à Kempis, Subprior of Mount St. Agnes
Translation: Benjamin Webb
Tune: “Agincourt” • 88 88 (LM)
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“When I Survey The Wondrous Cross” by Isaac Watts
Tune: “Rockingham” • 88 88 (LM)
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“O Come And Mourn With Me Awhile” by Fr. Frederick William Faber, Oratorian
Tune: “St Cross” • 88 88 (LM)
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“As With Gladness, Men Of Old” by William Chatterton Dix
Tune: “Dix” • 77 77 77
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“My Song Is Love Unknown” by Samuel Crossman
Tune: “Love Unknown” • 66 66 44 44
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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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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.