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Best Loved Christmas Carols, Readings and Poetry

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2018
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Wise men journey,

Led to worship by a star,

Kneel in homage,

Bringing precious gifts

From lands afar.

‘God is with us,’

Round the world the message bring.

He is with us.

‘Welcome!’ all the bells

On earth are peeling.

Valerie Collison (b.1933)

Permission has been sought.

Child in the manger (#ulink_d04444a4-b5fd-5bc6-9689-b153edf9b5a0)

This carol recalls the simplicity of the Christmas message: that God became a human being and lived among us. He has taken away our sin and redeemed us. He is worthy of our worship, praise and adoration.

Child in the manger,

infant of Mary;

outcast and stranger,

Lord of all:

child who inherits

all our transgressions,

all our demerits

on him fall.

Once the most holy

child of salvation

gentle and lowly

lived below;

now as our glorious

mighty Redeemer,

see him victorious

over each foe.

Prophets foretold him,

infant of wonder;

angels behold him

on his throne;

worthy our Saviour

of all their praises;

happy for ever

are his own.

Mary Macdonald (1789–1872)

translated by I. Macbean (1853–1931)

Christians, awake! (#ulink_9a3ee6ca-a76d-5e3a-b333-59e4edaf2a5b)

John Byrom, a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, wrote this popular Christmas hymn in 1749 in response to a request from his young daughter, Dolly, for an unusual Christmas present. She was delighted when she came down to breakfast on Christmas Day that year to find a scroll bearing the poem at her place. The lines were subsequently set to music by John Wainwright (c.1723–68), the organist at Stockport Parish Church, who directed the choir that sang it outside Byrom’s house on Christmas morning 1750.

Christians, awake! Salute the happy morn

Whereon the Saviour of the World was born!

Rise to adore the mystery of love,

Which hosts of angels chanted from above;

With them the joyful tidings first begun

Of God incarnate and the Virgin’s Son.

Unto the watchful shepherds it was told,

Who heard the angelic herald’s voice: ‘Behold!
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