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
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)
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