The Second Day of Christmas

O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) (arr. Mark Hayes)

O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) was originally written in Latin and dates back to the 1700s. While the song invites one and all to go adore Christ in Bethlehem, it also echoes the Nicene Creed, a creed created by the early church in 325 that most Christian churches agree upon today in “true God from true God,” the description of God’s incarnation, and that He was begotten, not created. We sing with the angels in praising God in stanza three.

Adeste fideles
læti triumphantes,
venite, venite in Bethlehem
natum videte
regem angelorum.
Venite adoremus,
venite adoremus,
venite adoremus,
Dominum.

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,
O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore him,
Christ the Lord.

True God of true God,
Light of light eternal,
our lowly nature he hath not abhorred;
born of a woman,
here in flesh appearing.

Sing, choirs of angels,
sing in exultation,
sing, all ye citizens of heav’n above:
“Glory to God,
all glory in the highest!”

Yea, Lord, we greet thee,
born this happy morning,
Jesus, to thee be all glory giv’n;
Word of the Father,
begotten, not created.

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