Ave Maris Stella (“Hail, thou star above the sea”)
Translation: Fr. John Fitzpatrick, Oblate of Mary
Sixth Tune: “Orientis Partibus E6” • 76 76
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Ave Maris Stella (“Hail, Star of ocean, hail”)
Translation: Bishop Edward G. Bagshawe
Tune: “Seán” • 66 66 Iambic
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Auctor Beate Saeculi (“Blest Author of the world”)
Translation: Msgr. Hugh T. Henry
Tune: “Seán” • 66 66 Iambic
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Auctor Beate Saeculi (“Blest Author of the world”)
Translation: Msgr. Hugh T. Henry
Text only—can be used with any 66 66 Iambic
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“Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty” by Reginald Heber
Tune: “Nicaea” • 11 12 12 10
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Schönster Herr Jesu (“Lord Jesu fairest, every lord who rulest”)
Translation: Fr. Dominic Popplewell
Tune: “Schönster Herr Jesu” • 567 557
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“O Lord, I Am Not Worthy”
Tune: “Non Dignus” • 76 76
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“What Child Is This?”
Translation: William Chatterton Dix
Tune: “Greensleeves” • 87 87 R
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Quem Vidistis Pastores? Dicite (“Angels we have heard on high”)
Translation: Most Rev’d James Chadwick, Bishop of Hexham
Tune: “Gloria” • 77 77 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.