Friday, January 05, 2007

January 5: Memorial of Saint John Neumann, bishop

The Twelfth Day of Christmas
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Today's song

Gabriel's message does away
Satan's curse and Satan's sway,
out of darkness brings our Day:
so, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold.

He that comes despised shall reign;
he that cannot die, be slain;
death by death its death shall gain:
so, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold.

Weakness shall the strong confound;
by the hands, in grave clothes wound,
Adam's chains shall be unbound:
so, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold.

Art by art shall be assailed;
to the cross shall Life be nailed;
from the grave shall hope be hailed:
so, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold.

The Annunciation; Words: Piae Cantiones, 1582; tr. John Mason Neale (1818-1866).

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