O Esca Viatorum (“O Food the pilgrim needeth”)
The Latin text is also included, in a metrical (singable) version.
First Tune: “In Allen Meinen Thaten” • 776 D
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Page 699
Surrexit Christus Hodie (“Jesus Christ is risen today”)
Tune: “Easter Hymn” • 77 77 A
Page 704
“Hail The Day That Sees Him Rise”
Text: After Charles Wesley and Thomas Cotterill.
Tune: “Llanfair” • 77 77 A
Page 678
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
Page 685
“Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days” by Claudia Frances Hernaman
Tune: “St Flavian” • 86 86 (CM)
Page 673
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
Page 667
Quem Vidistis Pastores? Dicite (“Angels we have heard on high”)
Translation: Most Rev’d James Chadwick, Bishop of Hexham
Tune: “Gloria” • 77 77 R
Page 669
“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
Page 658
“Lo! he comes with clouds descending” by John Cennick
Tune: “Helmsley” • 87 87 47
Page 664
“Joy To The World” by Isaac Watts
Tune: “Antioch” • 86 86 (CM)
