Christum wir sollen loben schon

Описание: Krewe de Voix, Paul Weber, director, sings Martin Luther's plainsong transcription of A solis ortu cardine with parts by Lucas Osiander in a live performance on December 12, 2025 at Trinity Episcopal Church, New Orleans.
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From lands that see the sun arise
to earth’s remotest boundaries,
the Virgin-born today we sing
the Son of Mary, Christ the King.

Blest Author of this earthly frame
to take a servant’s form He came,
that liberating flesh by flesh
whom He had made might live afresh.

In that chase parent’s holy womb,
celestial grace hath found its home;
and she, as earthly bride unknown,
yet calls that Offspring blest her own.

The mansion of the modest breast
becomes a shrine where God shall rest;
the pure and undefiled one
conceived in her womb the Son.

That Son, that Royal Son, she bore,
whom Gabriel’s voice had told before;
whom, in His Mother yet concealed,
the infant Baptist had revealed.

The manger and the straw He bore,
the cradle He did not abhor;
a little milk His infant fare
who feedeth all the fowl of air.

The heavenly chorus filled the sky,
the angels sang to God on high,
what time to shepherds watching lone,
they made creation’s Shepherd known.

All honor, praise and glory be,
O Jesus, Virgin-born, to Thee;
All glory, as is ever meet,
to Father, and to Paraclete. Amen.