Rick Lee JamesHealthcare Chaplain, Bon Secours Mercy Health · Husband, Dad, Hospital Chaplain, Recording Artist, Podcast Host, Loyola University IPS Graduate, Alpha Sigma Nu Member, and Recording Academy (GRAMMY®) member - Contributing musician on a Grammy-nomin

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Rejoice!)

25 Nov 2014 · 6 min

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Five voices perform a choral version of the hymn "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," weaving traditional theology with calls for justice and peace. They invoke "Rejoice, rejoice" while proclaiming the Messiah's coming and a vision of universal harmony, mixing sacred motifs with local references.

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That mountain will be exalted until the Son of God appears.
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel, Emmanuel.
Man shall come to dwell. Rejoice, rejoice, the man you dwell shall come to dwell with us. Thou didst bring calm and cheer.
Thy Spirit's by Thy hand in here. Disperse the moving clouds of the night, and death's dark shadow put to flight.
Rejoice, rejoice!
The man you met shall come to dwell.
Rejoice, rejoice!
The man you met shall Come to dwell with us. Oh, Father Wisdom, come from on high and burden all things far and nigh.
Show us the path of Valencians.
And Rosa Sánchez, to you. Each of us, each of us, who met you there shall come to dwell Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel shall come to dwell in us.
O come, desire of nations, Our people serve with heart and mind.
Then every strife and quarrel will cease. Then the whole world would never be—
be just.
with us.
Reach out, reach out.