Carols 2025
A Happy Christmas from LLRA & Cloverleaf Care Home.
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Joy to the world, the Lord is come
Let Earth receive her King
Let every heart prepare Him room
And Heaven and nature sing
And Heaven and nature sing
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing
Joy to the Earth, the Saviour reigns
Let all their songs employ
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy
He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love
And wonders of His love
And wonders, wonders, of His love
In The Bleak Midwinter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold him,
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When he comes to reign.
In the bleak midwinter
a stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty,
Jesus Christ.
Angels and archangels
may have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air;
But his mother only
In her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the beloved
with a kiss.
What can I give him,
poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd,
I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man,
I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give him:-
Give my heart.
Away in a manger,
no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus
Laid down His sweet head.
The stars in the bright sky
looked down where He lay –
The little Lord Jesus
asleep on the hay.
The cattle are lowing,
the Baby awakes,
But little Lord Jesus, no crying He makes.
I love Thee, Lord Jesus!
Look down from the sky,
And stay by my side
until morning is nigh.
Be near me, Lord Jesus;
I ask Thee to stay
Close by me for ever,
and love me, I pray.
Bless all the dear children
in Thy tender care,
And fit us forheaven
to live with Thee there.
While Shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All seated on the ground,
The Angel of the Lord came down,
And glory shone around.
‘Fear not,’ said he (For mighty dread
Had seized their troubled minds),
Glad tidings of great joy I bring
To you and all mankind,
‘To you in David’s town this day
Is born of David’s line
A Saviour who is Christ the Lord –
And this shall be the sign:
‘The heavenly Babe you there shall find
To human view displayed,
All meanly wrapped in swaddling bands,
And in a manger laid.’
Thus spake the seraph, and forthwith
Appeared a shining throng
Of angels praising God, who thus
Addressed their joyful song:
‘All glory be to God on high
And to the earth be peace;
Goodwill henceforth from heaven to men
Begin and never cease.’
Silent night! Holy night!
All is calm, all is bright,
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child!
Holy Infant, so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace!
Sleep in heavenly peace!
Silent night! Holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight!
Glories stream from Heaven afar,
Heavenly Hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ, the Saviour, is born!
Christ, the Saviour, is born!
Silent night! Holy night!
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from Thy Holy Face
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy Birth!
Jesus, Lord, at Thy Birth!
Hark the herald angels sing
“Glory to the new-born 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 host proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem”
Hark! the herald angels sing
“Glory to the new-born king”
Christ, by highest heaven adored
Christ, the everlasting Lord
Late in time behold Him come
Offspring of a Virgin’s womb!
Veiled in flesh, the Godhead see!
Hail the incarnate Deity
Pleased, as man with man to dwell
Jesus, our Emmanuel
Hark the herald-angels sing…
Hail, the Heaven-born Prince of Peace
Hail the Son 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 the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth
Hark the herald-angels sing…