Requested by Michele. This is a new hymn for me, one I never heard before: Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming, by the Cathedral Singers. A choir is a living music instrument: amazing, how they get it to work.
And if you have any carols to enter in the carol contest, now’s the time to do it.
This is new to me, too. It’s lovely.
Love the song!
It is beautiful. It has a long history of development, originally from 15th-century German. A few of the words:
Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming
from tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse’s lineage coming,
as those of old have sung.
It came, a flow’ret bright,
amid the cold of winter,
when half spent was the night.
We send this lovely hymn every Christmas season. Today is the 8th day of Christmas, and it represents Jesus being circumcised on the 8th day according to Old Testament law. 8 is the number of new beginnings, and why the early church began meeting on Sunday instead of Saturdayl