“Almighty God, Majestic King” by Fr. Christopher G. Phillips
Tune: “Lasst Uns Erfreuen” • 88 88 A
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Lasst Uns Erfreuen Herzlich Sehr (“Let us rejoice right heartily”)
Fr. Father Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld, SJ; translated into English by Fr. Dominic Popplewell.
Tune: “Lasst Uns Erfreuen (alt)” • 88 88 A
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Hymnum Canamus Gloriae (“A hymn of glory let us sing”)
Saint Bede the Venerable, Doctor of the Church; translated into English following Benjamin Webb and Elizabeth R. Charles.
Tune: “Lasst Uns Erfreuen” • 88 88 A
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“Love’s Redeeming Work Is Done” by Charles Wesley
Tune: “Savannah” • 77 77
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“As With Gladness, Men Of Old” by William Chatterton Dix
Tune: “Dix” • 77 77 77
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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.
First Tune: “All Saints 8B” • 77 77
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Stille Nacht (“Silent Night, Holy Night”)
This German text was composed by Fr. Josef Mohr, a Catholic priest who died in 1848. He should not be confused with a Jesuit priest, Fr. Josef Hermann Mohr (d. 1892), who published many German hymnals. The English translation (“Silent Night”) was composed by John Freeman Young.
Tune: “Stille Nacht” • 66 88 66
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“Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days” by Claudia Frances Hernaman
Tune: “St Flavian” • 86 86 (CM)
Page 684
“Forty Days And Forty Nights” by George Hunt Smyttan
Tune: “Aus Der Tiefe” • 77 77
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Puer Natus Est Nobis (“Bright and joyful is the morn”)
Text only—can be used with any 77 77
