“My Song Is Love Unknown” by Samuel Crossman
Tune: “Love Unknown” • 66 66 44 44
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“What Child Is This?”
Translation: William Chatterton Dix
Tune: “Greensleeves” • 87 87 R
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“The First Noël The Angel Did Say”
Tune: “The First Nowell” • 88 88 R
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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.
Third Tune: “Culbach” • 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
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“Forty Days And Forty Nights” by George Hunt Smyttan
Tune: “Aus Der Tiefe” • 77 77
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“God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen”
The meaning of “God rest you merry” is “God keep you merry.” Note the archaic use of the word rest (“keep”)—indeed, this carol probably dates from the 16th century.
Tune: “God Rest You Merry” • 86 86 86 R
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“Gabriel Saluting, Heaven Thee Recruiting” by Fr. Dominic Popplewell
Tune: “Reginald” • 66 76 R
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Veni Veni Emmanuel (“O come, O come, Emmanuel”)
Translation: Msgr. Ronald A. Knox
Tune: “Veni Veni Emmanuel” • 88 88 R