Your Lord is Born This Happy Day

 

One of my favorite Christmas movies is The Bishop’s Wife, where Cary Grant plays an angel sent to help a workaholic bishop learn that his family and those in need are more important than building a cathedral. In my favorite scene, Dudley the angel and the bishop’s wife visit the bishop’s former church, poor and facing closure, to hear the boy’s choir rehearse. What a glorious song! (Please pause the Music for Dreaming in the right column of this page before playing the video!)

 

O Sing To God, composed by Charles Gounod Dec. 1, 1885 and lyrics by Rev. B. Webb

O sing to God your hymns of gladness
Ye loving hearts your tribute pay
Your Lord is born this happy day
Then pierce the sky with songs of gladness
Disperse the shades of gloom and sadness
The Lord is born this happy day
O sing to God your hymns of gladness
O sing to God your hymns of gladness
Ye loving hearts your tribute pay
Your Lord is born this happy day
Then pierce the sky with songs of gladness
Disperse the shades of gloom and sadness
Your Lord is born this happy day
O sing to God your hymns of gladness
O Word of God for us incarnate
O Word of God for us incarnate
By faith we hear thine angels sing
Thy blessed angels sing their hymns
Thine angels sing of praise to thee their King
We join with them in adoration
We join with them in adoration
We pour to thee our supplication
That Thou would grant us, Lord, salvation.

Wishing you all a merry and blessed Christmas!