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.
Second Tune: “Llanfair” • 77 77 A
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“Songs Of Thankfulness And Praise” by Christopher Wordsworth
Tune: “St George” • 77 77 D
“The Epiphany—a cardinal feast—commemorates three manifestations of Christ’s divinity: the visit of the Wise men, our Lord ’s Baptism, and the miracle at Cana.”—Fr. Adrian Fortescue
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“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” by Charles Wesley
Tune: “Mendelssohn” • 77 77d R
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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.