How Long? is from Bifrost Arts album Lamentations – Simple Songs Of Lament And Hope Vol 1. There was never a volume 2, and Isaac Wardell’s creative efforts seem to have moved to the Porter’s Gate Worship Collective. The lyrics: How long? Will You turn Your face away? How long? Do You hear us when …
Light Has Come is From Future Of Forestry’s EP Light Has Come: Christmas. I thought it was appropriate as a Sunday Song, I think it could work as a congregational song. There’s a repeat that gets a bit ‘octave jumpy’, but you could easily do without it.
O Sacred And Immortal Day is an older set of hymn words with some additional lyrics and a new tune. It is sung by Leigh Nash from a compilation album called Christmas Hymns and Carols from about ten years ago or so. .
There Is No Rose Of Such Virtue is an archaic text in its origin, sung here by Sting on his album If On A Winter’s Night…. The rose in question seems to be Mary, but the lyric is more of a ‘Mary Did You Know’ sort of Mary, rather than a Queen of Heaven one.
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