Alleluia! Alleluia!

1.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Hearts to heav’n and voices raise;
Sing to God a hymn of gladness,
Sing to God a hymn of praise.
He who one the cross as Savior
For the world’s salvation bled,
Jesus Christ, the King of Glory,
Now is risen from the dead.

2.
Now the iron bars are broken,
Christ from death to life is born,
Glorious life, and life immortal
On this resurrection morn;
Christ has triumphed and we conquer
By his mighty enterprise,
We with him to life eternal
By his resurrection rise.

Hymn Tune: Hymn of Joy
Composer: Ludwig V. Beethoven
Text: Christopher Wordsworth
Meter: 8 7 8 7 D
Uses: Easter

Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today (II)

(Another song with the same title can be found here.)

1.
Christ, the Lord, is ris'n today;
Christians haste your vows to pay;
Make your joy and praises known
At the Paschal Victim's throne;
For the sheep the Lamb has bled,
Sinless in the sinner's stead;
Christ, the Lord, is risn' on high;
Noe he lives, no more to die!

2.
Christ, the Victim undefiled,
god and sinners reconciled;
When in strange and awesome strife
Met together death and life;
Christians, on this happy day
Haste with joy your vows to pay;
Christ, the Lord is risn'n on high;
Now he lives, no more to die!

3.
Say, O wond'ring Mary, say
What you saw along the way.
"I beheld two angels bright,
empty tomb and wrappings white;
I beheld the glory bright
Of the risen Lord of light.
Christ, my hope, is ris'n again;
Now he lives, and lives to reign!"

4.
Christ, who once for sinners bled,
Now the firstborn from the dead,
Throned in endless might and pow'r,
Lives and reigns forevermore.
Hail, eternal Hope on high!
Hail, our King of Victory!
Hail, our Prince of Life adored!
Help and save us, gracious Lord!

Meter: 77 77 D
Hymn Tune: Victimae Paschali
Use: Easter Season, loosely based on Paschal Sequence

Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today

(another song with same title can be found here.)

1.
Christ, the Lord is ris’n today,
Alleluia!
All on earth with angels say,
Alleluia!
Raise your love and triumphs high,
Alleluia!
Sing ye heav’ns and earth reply,
Alleluia!

2.
Lives again our glorious King;
Alleluia!
Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Alleluia!
Once he died our souls to save,
Alleluia!
Where thy victory, O grave?
Alleluia!

3.
Love’s redeeming work is done,
Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won.
Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids him rise;
Alleluia!
Christ has open’d paradise.
Alleluia!

4.
Soar we now where Christ has led,
Alleluia!
Foll’wing our exalted head;
Alleluia!
Made like him, like he we rise,
Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave the skies.
Alleluia!

Uses: Easter
Meter: 77 77

Silent Night

1.

Silent night!

Holy night!

All is calm,

all is bright

Round yon Virgin

Mother and child!

Holy infant

so tender and mild,

Sleep in heavenly peace,

Sleep in heavenly peace.



2.

Silent night!

Holy night!

Shepherds quake

at the sight:

Glories stream from heaven afar;

heav'nly hosts sings "Alleluia!

Christ the Savior is born,

Christ the Savior is born.



3.

Silent night!

Holy night!

Son of God,

love's pure light,

Radiant beams from thy holy face,

With the dawn of redeeming grace,

Jesus, Lord, at thy birth,

Jesus, Lord, at thy birth.



Uses: Christmas



Hymn Tune: Stille Nacht

Meter: 66 89 66

Text: Joseph Mohr

Music: Franz X. Gruber