For Christmas music tonight, I am sharing a wonderful performance by Celtic Woman of the Christmas Hymn, O Come All Ye Faithful. Originally written as a Latin hymn, titled, Adeste Fideles, it has been attributed to various authors. I subscribe to the song coming from John Francis Wade, since all the earliest copies have his name on them. The original four verses of the hymn were extended to a total of eight, and these have been translated into many languages. The English translation of O Come, All Ye Faithful by the English Catholic priest Frederick Oakeley, written in 1841, is widespread in most English speaking countries. The present harmonization is from the English Hymnal (1906) This performance of the English, O Come All Ye Faithful, comes from the wonderful musical ensemble known as Celtic Woman. For those who are also interested in the Divine Culture that exists in Heaven, you can see that this is another group who also tries to bring forth the Purity in colors and music. The dresses warn have the colors of the Threefold Flame, of Blue, Yellow and Pink, representing Power, Wisdom, and Love, as well as the color of the current Cycle for the Earth, which is Violet and represents Redemption. The Violinist (Máiréad Nesbitt) comes out in the Purity of White. They have done a wonderful job bringing forth the beauty, and Divine Culture into the outer world, and as the prayer goes in Christian circles, we ask Thy Kingdom Come. This is how His Kingdom does come, we bring it here with our choices and actions. I provide below, the lyrics in both the original latin, and the English that is sung in the video. Adeste fideles læti triumphantes, Venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte Regem angelorum: Venite adoremus (3x) Dominum. Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine Gestant puellæ viscera Deum verum, genitum non factum. Venite adoremus (3x) Dominum. Cantet nunc io, chorus angelorum; Cantet nunc aula cælestium, Gloria in excelsis Deo, Venite adoremus (3x) Dominum. Ergo qui natus die hodierna. Jesu, tibi sit gloria, Patris aeterni Verbum caro factum. Venite adoremus (3x) Dominum. English: O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant! O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem; Come and behold him Born the King of Angels: O come, let us adore Him, (3x) Christ the Lord. God of God, light of light, Lo, he abhors not the Virgins womb; Very God, begotten, not created: O come, let us adore Him, (3x) Christ the Lord. Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation, Sing, all ye citizens of Heaven above! Glory to God, glory in the highest: O come, let us adore Him, (3x) Christ the Lord. Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning; Jesus, to thee be glory given! Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing! O come, let us adore Him, (3x) Christ the Lord.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:49:58 +0000
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