Music for Advent/Philip's Fast

[GregoryPalamas]

Each Advent/Philip’s Fast I start a list of songs for the season that are people’s favorite. One of my favorites remains Wesley’s “Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending”

Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign.

Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.

Every island, sea, and mountain,
Heav’n and earth, shall flee away;
All who hate Him must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day:
Come to judgment! Come to judgment! Come to judgment!
Come to judgment! Come away!

Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear;
All His saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet Him in the air:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
See the day of God appear!

Answer Thine own bride and Spirit,
Hasten, Lord, the general doom!
The new Heav’n and earth t’inherit,
Take Thy pining exiles home:
All creation, all creation, all creation,
Travails! groans! and bids Thee come!

The dear tokens of His passion
Still His dazzling body bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransomed worshippers;
With what rapture, with what rapture, with what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!

Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for Thine own;
O come quickly! O come quickly! O come quickly!
Everlasting God, come down!

To the tune of Bryn Calfaria cyberhymnal.org/htm/l/e/lenthron.htm

What are some of your favorites.

BTW Philip’s Fast is what you call Advent but it begins on November 15 and includes fasting from meat and dairy M, W, F until December 25.

CDL

 

[baltobetsy]

That’s my favorite hymn of the whole church year. Except I sing it to the tune Helmsley. Thanks for reminding me that it’s time again!

Betsy

 

[CatholicNerd]

Each Advent/Philip’s Fast I start a list of songs for the season that are people’s favorite. One of my favorites remains Wesley’s “Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending”
CDL

The Schola I direct sang that one for Christ the King Sunday (we’re pesky old-calendarist Romans ) and followed it with Dignus Est Agnus. It was very well-received indeed. My favorite Advent hymn is probably Creator of the Stars of Night:

Creator of the stars of night,
Thy people’s everlasting light,
O Christ, Redeemer, save us all,
and hear Thy servants when they call.

Thou, grieving that the ancient curse
should doom to death a universe,
hast found the med’cine, full of grace,
to save and heal a ruined race.

Thou camest, the Bridegroom of the Bride,
as drew the world to evening tide,
proceeding from a virgin shrine,
the spotless Victim all divine.

At whose dread Name, majestic now,
all knees must bend, all hearts must bow;
and things celestial Thee shall own,
and things terrestrial Lord alone.

O Thou whose coming is with dread,
to judge and doom the quick and dead,
preserve us, while we dwell below,
from every insult of the foe.

To God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Spirit, Three in One,
laud, honor, might, and glory be
from age to age eternally.
Amen.

Guillaume Dufay wrote a marvelous and mystical harmonization of the chant, available here from the Choral Public Domain Library cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Conditor_alme_siderum_%28Guillaume_Dufay%29

 

[wynd]

My favorite is “O Come O Come Emmanuel.”

O come, O come Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here,
Until the Son of God appear.

Chorus:
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

Oh, come, oh, come, great Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes on Sinai’s height
In Ancient times once gave the law
In cloud, and majesty and awe.
Chorus:

Oh, come, strong branch of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satans tyranny;
From depths of hell Thy people save
And give them vict’ry o’er the grave.

 

[ciero]

CDL The Philip’s fast includes the abstaining of dairy, meat and fish on ALL weekdays. Wine and Oil are allowed on Tuesday & Thursday as well as Saturday & Sunday. Fish is allowed on Saturday & Sunday up to the week before Nativity.

 

[Psalm45_9]

I like Rorate Caeli, it is an Advent hymn and it was also the introit for the 4th Sunday in Advent.

 

[GregoryPalamas]

CDL The Philip’s fast includes the abstaining of dairy, meat and fish on ALL weekdays. Wine and Oil are allowed on Tuesday & Thursday as well as Saturday & Sunday. Fish is allowed on Saturday & Sunday up to the week before Nativity.

I’m still learning. Thanks.

CDL

 

[CatholicNerd]

I like Rorate Caeli, it is an Advent hymn and it was also the introit for the 4th Sunday in Advent.

It still is The propers for the 4th Sunday of Advent didn’t change in the 1975 Graduale Romanum.