The First Day of Christmas

Christmas Medley: A Noel Celebration: Angels We Have Heard on High, Silent Night, and Joy to the World (arr. Jeff Atmajian)

In celebration of Christ’s birth and a retelling of Luke 2, Angels We Have Heard on High is what the shepherds saw and felt – that angels proclaimed the birth of a Saviour and sang Gloria, and the reason for the shepherds excitement – that Christ had been born. Silent Night continues the theme painting the picture of what the shepherds saw that night and the awe of the shining love of God. Joy to the World traces redemption through history from the promise in Genesis 3 to Christ’s glorious return. Gloria!

Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for He has done marvelous things! His right hand and His holy arm have worked salvation for Him. – Psalm 98:1

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly, sweetly through the night
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their brief delight

Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo

Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?

Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo

Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing,
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.

Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo

See within a manger laid
Jesus, Lord of heaven and earth!
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
sing with us our Savior’s birth.


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Silent night! Holy night!
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child!
Holy infant, so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace!
Sleep in heavenly peace!

Silent night! Holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight!
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ the Saviour is born!
Christ the Saviour is born!

Silent night! Holy night!
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth!
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth!

Silent Night! Holy Night!
Wondrous star, lend thy light.
With the angels let us sing,
‘Alleluia!’ to our King.
Christ the Saviour is born!
Christ the Saviour is born!


Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive its King;
let ev’ry heart prepare Him room,
and heav’n and nature sing,
and heav’n and nature sing,
and heav’n, and heav’n and nature sing.

Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let all their songs employ
while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains,
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground.
He comes to make His blessings flow
far as the curse is found,
far as the curse is found,
far as, far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove
the glories of His righteousness,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders, wonders of His love.

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