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Associate Editor: David H. Pickering
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Introduction
Index of Titles and First Lines
Author Index
Index of Bible References
Best-Loved Christmas Carols, Readings and Poetry
Copyright
About the Publisher
Introduction
Christmas: the very word conjures up a sense of celebration, excitement … and bustle. The Christmas season is a unique time of year, but the pressures of commercialism, the trappings associated with Christmas and the expectations we have of it all threaten to overshadow its real significance.
At the heart of Christmas is the most amazing fact: God took on our humanity and was born as a child in Bethlehem. This good news, reiterated in many different ways in this collection of carols, poems and readings, is meant to affect our lives the whole year round. So we have included material that explores the implications of Christmas, urging us to lead lives that reflect the message of peace on earth and goodwill to all.
This collection is designed both as a reference work and a resource for personal devotion. Each carol, reading or poem is given an introduction which provides interesting or helpful background information. All the readings are arranged in alphabetical order of title (ignoring ‘A’ or ‘The’ at the beginning of the title). For ease of reference there are also indexes at the beginning of the book to enable you to find a particular item by reference to its title and first line, its author, or, where appropriate, its Bible reference.
It has been a joy to edit this compilation, which we trust will take us back to the heart of the first Christmas, ‘that to you is born … a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord’ (Luke 2:11). May we respond not only with our worship, praise and adoration but also with changed lives that actually live out the message of Christmas all through the year.
Martin H. Manser
David H. Pickering
Index of Titles and First Lines
(where the first line differs from the title, the first line appears in italics)
Adam and Eve in the garden
Adam lay ybounden
All my heart this night rejoices
All the days of Christmas
Angels we have heard on high
Angels, from the realms of glory
The Annunciation
As I watched in the night visions, I saw one like a human being
As with gladness men of old
Away in a manger
Behold a virgin shall conceive
The bells of waiting Advent ring
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God
The Boar’s head carol
The boar’s head in hand bear I
Brightest and best of the sons of the morning
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son
But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah
The Calypso carol
Can I not sing but ‘Hoy’
Celebrations
Child in the manger
The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap
Christians, awake!
A Christingle song
The Christingle song begins with an orange
Christmas
Christmas bells
A Christmas carol
A Christmas Carol
Christmas Day in the workhouse
Christmas in India
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat
The Christmas now is past, and I have kept my fast
Christmas shopping
A Christmas song
The Christmas tree
A cold coming we had of it
Come and join the celebration
Come, Thou long-expected Jesus
Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God
The Coventry carol
Dashing through the snow
David’s dynasty will last for ever
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Declare these things
Dim dawn behind the tamarisks – the sky is saffron-yellow –
Ding! dong! merrily on high
Do not let your hearts be troubled
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!
Fastidiously, with gloved and careful fingers
The first Nowell
The first-born of all creation
The flight into Egypt
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all
For unto us a child is born
The friendly beasts
From heaven above to earth I come
From the centre of the ceiling of this kitchen, old Wardle had just suspended
A frosty Christmas Eve
Gaudete!
Go tell it on the mountain
God has spoken
God is love
God rest ye merry, gentlemen
God so loved the world
Good Christian friends, rejoice
Good King Wenceslas
The grace of God
Had a pleasant walk to White Hall
Hail the blest morn! See the great Mediator
Hark! the herald angels sing
He afterwards fell into an Account of the Diversions
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation
He’s got the whole world in His hand
His active little crutch was heard upon the floor
The holly and the ivy
Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber
Hymn on the morning of Christ’s nativity
I am the way
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions
I saw three ships come sailing in
I sing of a maiden
I went to London with my wife, to celebrate Christmas-day
I woke after 7 and got up at 8
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
I’ve just had an astounding dream as I lay in the straw
In days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established
In that region there were shepherds living in the fields
In the beginning was the Word
In the bleak mid-winter
In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God
In the time of David
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem
In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus
In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town
Infant holy, infant lowly
It came upon a midnight clear
It is Christmas Day in the workhouse
It was Christmas Day in the trenches
It was the Winter wilde
It’s rounded like an orange
Jesus Christ is Lord
Jesus, our brother, kind and good
Jingle Bells
Joly Wat
Joseph and Mary
Journey of the Magi
Joy to the world
King John was not a good man –
King John’s Christmas
Lady selecting her Christmas cards
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus
A light to the nations
Like all intelligent people, I greatly dislike Christmas
Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention, you peoples from far away!
little tree
A little child
Little Jesus, sweetly sleep, do not stir
Lo! He comes with clouds descending
Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets
Love came down at Christmas
Lully, lulla, thou little tyne child
The Magnificat
Make we mery both more and lasse
Mary had a baby
The messenger of God
Minstrel’s song
Mistletoe
Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house
The mystery of our religion
The night before Christmas
No room at the inn
Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph
Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way
Now the holly bears a berry
Now the holly bears a berry as white as the milk
Now there was a man in Jerusalem who name was Simeon
Now ys the time of Crystymas
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
O come, all ye faithful
O come, O come, Emmanuel
O holy night
O little town of Bethlehem
Of the Father’s heart begotten
Old Sam’s Christmas pudding
On a winter’s night long time ago
On Christmas night all Christians sing
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Once in royal David’s city
Out of Bethlehem
Out of Jacob
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light
A Pepysian Christmas
Personent hodie
The Pickwick Papers
A Puritan Christmas
Put out the lights now!
Rejoice, ye tenants of the earth
Rocking carol
The rod of Jesse
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
Saint Stephen and King Herod
Saint Stephen was a clerk
See Him lying on a bed of straw
See, amid the winter’s snow
See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me
See, the day is coming, burning like an oven
A Shavian Christmas
The shepherds and the angels
A shoot shall come out from the stock of Jesus
Silent night
Simeon and Anna
Sir Roger de Coverley’s Christmas
Sitting under the mistletoe
So he uttered his oracle
Somehow not only for Christmas
Step softly, under snow or rain
The sun of righteousness
Swords into ploughshares
Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign
They heard the sound of the Lord God
Three damsels in the queen’s chamber
The three wise men
The time draws near the birth of Christ
To him was given dominion
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Torches
Torches, torches, run with torches
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
The twelve days of Christmas
Unto us a boy is born
Unto us is born a Son
A Victorian Christmas
The Virgin Mary had a baby boy
The voice in the wilderness
Wassail! wassail all over town!
Watts’s cradle hymn
We declare to you what was from the beginning
We three kings of Orient are
We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God
We wish you a merry Christmas
What child is this who, laid to rest
What child is this?
What shall my true love
When the fullness of time had come
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
White Christmas
The wise men
The Word of life
Zechariah and Elizabeth
Zechariah’s song of thanksgiving
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