Gentle Mary Laid Her Child is a carol which is popularly sung to the tune Tempus Adest Floridium, most commonly associated with Good King Wenceslas. The carol is also sung with other melodies. The latter lyrics are certainly seasonal, but Joseph Simpson Cook’s words are more fitting for Christian worship. The lyrics: 1. Gentle Mary …
The Three Drovers is one of the Australian Christmas Songs composed by John Wheeler and William James. If you attended Christmas services during the 1960s and 1970s you’d have heard this and its companions. I wouldn’t use it as part of a church service, but I enjoy singing it as part of other functions that …
Tonight at mgpc, in preparation for Mount Gambier’s Blue Lake Carols, we sang As With Gladness. William Chatterton Dix’s lyrics have a wonderful expectancy about the future. We sang them to the tune Dix. The lyrics: 1. As with gladness men of old Did the guiding star behold, As with joy they hailed its ligh, …
Superbly written and evocative Advent themed reflection on a theme from Zephaniah by author Marilyn Robinson. Read the whole thing here, but this is the concluding half. The prophets tell us that we are contained in an ethical cosmos. Choices have consequences. These are not, in the overwhelming majority of cases, choices we make as …
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