Lux Alma, Jesu, Mentium (“Light of the anxious heart”)
Translation: (Saint) John Henry Cardinal Newman, Oratorian
Tune: “Potsdam” • 66 86 (SM)
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“Crown Him With Many Crowns” by Matthew Bridges
Tune: “Diademata” • S. M. D.
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Quicumque Christum Quaeritis (“O ye, the truly wise, who in the Lord delight”)
Translation: Robert Campbell of Skerrington
Tune: “Festal Song” • 66 86 (SM)
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“What Child Is This?”
Translation: William Chatterton Dix
Tune: “Greensleeves” • 87 87 R
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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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Instantis Adventum Dei (“The coming of our God”)
Translation: Fr. Charles Coffin
Tune: “Seán 8M” • 66 86 (SM)
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“Lo! he comes with clouds descending” by John Cennick
Tune: “Helmsley” • 87 87 47
