St. George Roman Catholic Parish

A Christmas

Candlelight Concert

in Apache Junction

Carlos Zapién, Tenor and Pianist

PROGRAM

    1. Joy to the world; the Lord is come;
      Let Earth receive her King;
      Let ev'ry Heart prepare him room,
      And Heav'n and nature sing.

    2. Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns,
      Let us our Songs employ,
      While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains,
      Repeat the sounding joy.

    3. No more let sins and sorrows grow,
      Nor thorns infest the ground;
      He comes to make his blessings flow
      Far as the curse is found.

    4. He rules the world with truth and grace,
      And makes the nations prove
      The glories of his righteousness,
      And wonders of his love.

    1. 1 O come, O come, Emmanuel,
      and ransom captive Israel
      that mourns in lonely exile here
      until the Son of God appear.

      Refrain:
      Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
      shall come to you, O Israel.

    2. O come, O Wisdom from on high,
      who ordered all things mightily;
      to us the path of knowledge show
      and teach us in its ways to go. [Refrain]

    3. O come, O come, great Lord of might,
      who to your tribes on Sinai's height
      in ancient times did give the law
      in cloud and majesty and awe. [Refrain]

    1. Hark! the herald angels sing,
      "Glory to the newborn King:
      peace on earth, and mercy mild,
      God and sinners reconciled!"
      Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
      join the triumph of the skies;
      with th'angelic hosts proclaim,
      "Christ is born in Bethlehem!"

      Refrain:
      Hark! the herald angels sing,
      "Glory to the newborn King"

    2. Christ, by highest heaven adored,
      Christ, the everlasting Lord,
      late in time behold him come,
      offspring of the Virgin's womb:
      veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
      hail th'incarnate Deity,
      pleased with us in flesh to dwell,
      Jesus, our Emmanuel. [Refrain]

    3. Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
      Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
      Light and life to all he brings,
      risen with healing in his wings.
      Mild he lays his glory by,
      born that we no more may die,
      born to raise us from the earth,
      born to give us second birth. [Refrain]

    1. Angels we have heard on high,
      Sweetly singing o'er the plains,
      And the mountains in reply
      Echoing their joyous strains.

      Refrain:
      Gloria in excelsis Deo.
      Gloria in excelsis Deo.

    2. Shepherds, why this jubilee?
      Why your joyous strains prolong?
      What the gladsome tidings be
      Which inspire your heavn'ly song? [Refrain]

    3. Come to Bethlehem and see
      Him whose birth the angels sing.
      Come, adore on bended knee
      Christ the Lord, the newborn King. [Refrain]

    1. It came upon the midnight clear,
      that glorious song of old,
      from angels bending near the earth
      to touch their harps of gold:
      "Peace on the earth, good will to men,
      from heaven's all-gracious King."
      The world in solemn stillness lay,
      to hear the angels sing.

    2. Still through the cloven skies they come
      with peaceful wings unfurled,
      and still their heavenly music floats
      o'er all the weary world;
      above its sad and lowly plains,
      they bend on hovering wing,
      and ever o'er its Babel sounds
      the blessed angels sing.