over and over again and again god is faithful

Murray's A Hymnal for Use in the English Church (1852) and William Mercer's ( PHH 35) Church Psalter and Hymn Book (1854).Įducated at Christ Church, Oxford, England, Oakeley was ordained in the Church of England in 1826. It is also based on translations found in both F. Islington, London, England, 1880), who translated the text for use at the Margaret Street Chapel (now All Saints', Margaret Street) in London (1841).

The translation in the Psalter Hymnal is based primarily on the work of Frederick Oakeley (b. Wade's copied manuscripts were published as Cantus Diversi pro Dominicis et Festis per annum (1751). He taught music at an English college in Douay and hand copied and sold chant music for use in the chapels of wealthy families. By the early nineteenth century, however, four additional stanzas had been added by other writers, A Roman Catholic, Wade apparently moved to France because of discrimination against Roman Catholics in eighteenth-century England–especially so after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The earliest manuscript signed by Wade is dated about 1743. Douay, France, 1786) is now generally recognized as both author and composer of this hymn, originally written in Latin in four stanzas. The text has two unusual features for such a popular hymn: it is unrhymed and has an irregular meter.

Then after exhorting the angels to sing their praise (st.

We sing words borrowed from the Nicene Creed to express the Christian faith about the incarnation (st. In this well-known and loved Christmas hymn, we are invited as God's faithful people to go to Bethlehem and adore Christ the Lord (st.

Over and over again and again god is faithful