“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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“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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Instantis Adventum Dei (“The coming of our God”)
Translation: Fr. Charles Coffin
Tune: “Seán 8M” • 66 86 (SM)
A “text only version” is included at page bottom, providing melodic flexibility.
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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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Adeste Fideles, Laeti Triumphantes (“God rest you merry, Gentlemen”)
Translation: Fr. Frederick Oakeley, Canon of Westminster Cathedral
Tune: “Adeste Fideles” • 11 9 11 R
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“Adeste Fideles, Laeti Triumphantes” by John Francis Wade
Translation: Textus originalis Latinus
Tune: “Adeste Fideles” • 11 9 11 R
