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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nA little hymnic reflection for this Christmastide:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
“See, amid the winter’s snow,
born for us on earth below,
see the tender Lamb appears,
promised from eternal years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hail! Thou ever-blessed morn!
Hail, redemption’s happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem.”<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n“Lo, within a manger lies
He who built the starry skies;
He, who throned in height sublime,
sits amid the cherubim!
Hail! Thou ever-blessed morn!
Hail, redemption’s happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem.”<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n“Say, ye holy shepherds, say, “As we watched at dead of night, “Sacred Infant, all divine, “Teach, O teach us, Holy Child, Merry Christmas & Happy St. Stephen’s Day! Christmas may be over for many in the world, but for the church it is just now the second day of Christmas…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,46],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-faith","tag-blessed-christmastide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_3921.jpg?fit=819%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5541,"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/5541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
what your joyful news today;
wherefore have ye left your sheep
on the lonely mountain steep?
Hail! Thou ever-blessed morn!
Hail, redemption’s happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/12\/img_3341.jpg?w=1280\")
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lo, we saw a wondrous light;
angels singing ‘Peace on earth’
told us of the Savior’s birth.
Hail! Thou ever-blessed morn!
Hail, redemption’s happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem.”<\/p>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/12\/img_3324-1.jpg?w=1280\")
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what a tender love was Thine;
thus to come from highest bliss
down to such a world as this!
Hail! Thou ever-blessed morn!
Hail, redemption’s happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem.”<\/p>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/12\/img_3430.jpg?w=1280\")
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by Thy face so meek and mild,
teach us to resemble Thee
in Thy sweet humility!
Hail! Thou ever-blessed morn!
Hail, redemption’s happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/hymnsandhome.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/12\/img_3582.jpg?w=1280\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nA blessed Christmastide and a happy New Year to you all!<\/h3>\n\n\n
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