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O Come, All Ye Faithful
a/k/a/ Adeste Fideles
Words: John Francis Wade, 1745
Music: Uncertain
Audio by Celtic Women at THIS LINK
Another by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at THIS LINK
This carol has an interesting history. The Latin version of this carol, ‘Adeste Fideles’, was written by John Francis Wade (1711-86), who fled England after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to teach music in the school for British Roman Catholic exiles in Douai in France. It was first published in 1760, and it has been suggested that it might have incidentally served as a coded rallying cry for the Stewart cause. The English translation was made by Frederick Oakley and William Brooke in 1841. Many people think that Adeste Fideles is Spanish rather than Latin. The original Latin text is here:
Another by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at THIS LINK
This carol has an interesting history. The Latin version of this carol, ‘Adeste Fideles’, was written by John Francis Wade (1711-86), who fled England after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to teach music in the school for British Roman Catholic exiles in Douai in France. It was first published in 1760, and it has been suggested that it might have incidentally served as a coded rallying cry for the Stewart cause. The English translation was made by Frederick Oakley and William Brooke in 1841. Many people think that Adeste Fideles is Spanish rather than Latin. The original Latin text is here:
Adeste fideles læti triumphantes, Venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte Regem angelorum. Venite adoremus (ter) Dominum. En grege relicto humiles ad cunas, Vocati pastores approperant, Et nos ovanti gradu festinemus. Venite adoremus (ter) Dominum. Æterni Parentis splendorem æternum, Velatum sub carne videbimus, Deum infantem pannis involutum. Venite adoremus (ter) Dominum. Pro nobis egenum et fœno cubantem Piis foveamus amplexibus ; Sic nos amantem quis non redamaret ? Venite adoremus (ter) Dominum.
I love to play and sing this carol as the music and words together give it a triumphal feeling that something wonderful has happened, which of course, is the celebration of the birth of Jesus. The more familiar lyrics which most churches sing are below:
O Come All Ye Faithful
, Joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
Come and behold Him,
Born the King of Angels;
REFRAIN
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
Sing, choirs of angels,
Sing in exultation,
Sing all ye citizens of heav’n above.
Glory to God in the Highest;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
God of God, Light of Light
Lo, He abhors not the virgin’s womb
Very God, begotten not created
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
Yea, Lord, we greet Thee,
Born this happy morning,
Jesus to Thee be all glory giv’n.
Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
Psalm 2:11
Worship the LORD with reverence
And rejoice with trembling.
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