O Come O Come Emmanuel

Welcome to day 2 of the 24 days of Christmas on the Great Faith Adventure!! I got to go get my clarinet yesterday yay! The final diagnosis was - 9 new pads (did I just get the entire clarinet re-padded? lol I feel like it). I really like the place I went to, but I also refer to them now as the mafia of band instrument repair. They'll fix your instrument and insult it for no extra charge lol I also discovered that I have what I like to call a hybrid Bundy. One of the pieces says Bundy and it came in a Bundy case when I bought it at the pawn shop in Porterville, CA waaay back in 1998, but the other pieces are not marked Bundy and oh yeah the two pieces that go together where you line the instrument up - not quite an exact match. Which would explain why all these years it seemed a little off when I had my thumb below the little thumb thing. The guy told me that I could have it 50% off and it would be more ergonomically correct. And before I forget - he called the girl that sits next to me in orchestra at church (who happens to also be a Tau Beta Sigma alumna - yay for sisters!) and said to her "You have to play next to that clarinet?" Gee thanks. And to top it all off - the repairs were $48 and some change. I paid $98 for the clarinet - so I pretty much spent half in repairs on what I paid for it lol But, I can play middle C and B again and the pads are rocking.

Today's video is O Come O Come Emmanuel. I found a great video (after checking out some others) of Shane and Shane performing it. You will not be disappointed!! Here is some history on the song for you.

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The song is a translation of a Catholic Christian Latin text by John Mason Neale that was done in the mid nineteenth century (the Latin text is Veni Emmanuel and means come God with us). The text is based on the Biblical prophecy from Isaiah 7:14 which says that God will give Israel a sign that will be called Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:14 - "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel."

The tune is believed to have originated as far back as the 8th century and also believed to have originated from a French processional for Franciscan nuns.

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O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Wisdom from on high,
Who orderest all things mightily;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And teach us in her ways to go.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan’s tyranny;
From depths of hell Thy people save,
And give them victory over the grave.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, O come, great Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes on Sinai’s height
In ancient times once gave the law
In cloud and majesty and awe.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Root of Jesse’s tree,
An ensign of Thy people be;
Before Thee rulers silent fall;
All peoples on Thy mercy call.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind;
Bid Thou our sad divisions cease,
And be Thyself our King of Peace.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.