Oh Come All Ye Faithful

Hey what do you know - it's day number 8 on the 24 Days of Christmas on The Great Faith Adventure. I am freezing as I sit here typing this - Ella needs to come squeeze in behind me on the chair. Or Sugar. Or Callie. Come on kitty cats, your failing me here. Yep - wimpy native Californian here. Tennessee is going to be real fun for me next year lol

So today's song is Oh Come All Ye Faithful. I listened to a few on youtube and decided that I wanted to go with the Third Day version (plus I really like Third Day!!).

The original manuscript for Oh Come All Ye Faithful was written In 1743 by John Francis Wade who was a Roman Catholic from England. It was a Latin piece known as Adeste Fideles. During the Jacobite rebellion, he fled England along with other Catholics. To support himself he worked as a music teacher and also copied musical scores. When the persecution ended, Wade and other English refugees returned home and brought the song with them. Eventually, Rev. Frederick Oakeley who was an Anglican minister discovered the song. It inspired him and he attempted to translate it. His first translation read “Ye Faithful, Approach Ye.” Oakeley attempted a second translation which was more direct and read “O Come, All Ye Faithful, Joyful and Triumphant!” The melody of Oh Come All Ye Faithful has been credited to John Reading and John Wade. Most hymnals have John Wade as the author of the music and the lyrics.

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.

O Sing, choirs of angels,
Sing in exultation,
Sing all that hear in heaven God's holy word.
Give to our Father glory in the Highest;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.

All Hail! Lord, we greet Thee,
Born this happy morning,
O Jesus! for evermore be Thy name adored.
Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.