Sing Choirs of Angels: Traditional Carols and Christmas Music

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They could dress a cuddly toy in angel costumes, make their own costumes (after showing them images of the tough manly angels). O Come, Divine Messiah” is a lovely and lilting hymn of longing for the day “when hope shall sing its triumph and sadness flee away.” Translated from the original French, the amazing contrast of Jesus’ glory stooping to enter humanity’s pain is beautifully expressed: “All clothed in human weakness, shall we your Godhead see.” This song is a cry of those who wait in darkness: “Dispel the night and show your face, and bid us hail the dawn of grace.” (Source: Hymnary.org). 5. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Matt Redman’s moving ballad tells the Christmas story of the Annunciation to Mary and the story to Bethlehem in a contemporary fashion. It has become a soothing Christmas classic. Title from the Hymns of Universal Praise. Also called "一輪明月歌" Yīlún Míngyuè Gē by its first line in the Chinese New Hymnal.A writer of many Christian hymns, James Montgomery ( PHH 72) composed this Christmas and Epiphany text and published it on Christmas Eve, 1816, in the Sheffield Iris, a newspaper he edited. Montgomery based the text in part on the French carol "Angels We Have Heard on High" (347); it was sung to that tune for over fifty years. Entitling it "Good Tidings of Great Joy to All People," Montgomery republished the text with small alterations in his Christian Psalmist (1825). This carol tells of the Bohemian Duke and Martyr ‘Wenceslaus’ who was converted to Christianity in the 10th century. The tune is actually from a spring ‘carol’ originally found in the same medieval songbook as ‘Gaudete’. Come Thou Long Expected Jesus” was written by Charles Wesley in 1744 after considering the plight of orphans in his community in light of Haggai 2:7. The hymn was popularized when Charles Spurgeon mentioned it in a Christmas sermon in 1855. The hymn adores Jesus as the one who was “born to set thy people free” and who is “the joy of every longing heart.” (Source: Wikipedia). 4. O Come, Divine Messiah Translated into English as "March of the Kings" or "Sing Noel: A Christmas Fanfare" with words by Jay Althouse Sargent, Malcolm (23 November 1961). Zither Carol. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-341984-1 . Retrieved 15 November 2017.

The distribution of Christmas music books in the 19th century helped to increase the popular interest in carols. William Sandys' 1833 compilation Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern featured the first publication in print of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen," "The First Noel," and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." The publication in 1871 of Christmas Carols, New and Old by Henry Ramsden Bramley and Sir John Stainer was also a notable contribution to reviving carols in Victorian Britain. Christmas Day worship service; during the Christmas season and Epiphany (not only for the Christmas story, but also for the hymn's obvious mission focus in stanza 4). Find sources: "List of Christmas carols"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ascension day is 40 days after the resurrection, Ascentiontide is the ten days from Ascension Day to the day before Whit Sunday)