| Lyrics: | Celebrons la naissance
Nostri Salvatoris,
Qui fait la complaisance
Dei sui
Patris,
Cet en fant tout aimable,
In nocte media.
Est ne dans une etable
De casta
Maria.
Cette heureuse novelle
Olim pastoribus
Par un ange fidele
Fuit
nuntiatus,
Leur disant laissez paitre
In agro viridi
Venez voir votre maitre
Filium
que Dei.
A cette voix celeste,
Omnes hi Pastores,
D'un air doux et modeste
Et
multum gaudentes,
Incontinent marcherent
Relicto pecore.
Tou ensemble arriverent
In
Bethlehem Judae.
Mille espris angeliques,
Sacti pastoribus,
Chantent dans leur
musique,
Puer vobis natus,
Au Dieu par qui nous sommes,
Gloria in excelsis,
Et la
paix soit aus hommes
Bonae voluntatis.
English Translation:
WE SING IN CELEBRATION
We sing in celebration
Of Christ, the Savior
King;
Our Hope and Jubilation,
Whom God to earth doth bring;
This Babe, so sweet and
gentle,
That came to earth this night,
Is born within a stable
To Mary, Virgin
mild.
The shepherds on the hillside
Were watching o'er their sheep,
When 'there
appeared an angel
>From out the darkness deep,
Announcing that the Baby,
Who in the
manger lay,
Was God, the Heav'nly Father,
Who came to earth today.
To hear the
heav'nly tidings,
The shepherds all rejoiced;
And, filled with awe and wonder,
Their
great thanksgiving voiced.
Together they came running,
Unheeding of their flocks,
To see
the holy Infant
That Mary holds and rocks.
The angels from the Highest
Burst forth
in sweetest song;
And soon the shep |
