Advent 2021: A Season Of Healing And Hope – December 2
Songs of Advent
O Come Divine Messiah
(This advent hymn was written in French as “Venez, divin Messie” by abbot and hymn-writer Pellegrin, M. l’abbé (Simon-Joseph) (1663-1745).
The English translation is by English Notre Dame Sister Mary of St. Philip, SND, aka Mary Frances Lescher (1825-1904). It was first published in 1877)
10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:10-13 (NRSV)
O Come Divine Messiah
O come, divine Messiah!
The world in silence waits the day
When hope shall sing its triumph,
And sadness flee away.
Refrain:
Dear Savior, haste! Come, come to earth.
Dispel the night and show your face,
And bid us hail the dawn of grace.
O come, Divine Messiah!
The world in silence waits the day
When hope shall sing its triumph,
And sadness flee away.
O come, Desired of nations,
Whom priest and prophet long foretold.
Come break the captive’s fetters,
Redeem the long-lost fold.
O come in peace and meekness,
For lowly will your cradle be:
Though clothed in human weakness
We shall your Godhead see.
(With meter 7.8.7.6.888 with refrain, it is almost always set to a 16th century French tune VENEZ, DIVIN MESSIE which was written by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704))
