Hymns for Friday Evening Mass

1st Week of Advent

Entrance

O Come O Come Emmanuel

Verse 1
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.

Chorus
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel.

Offertory

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Verse 1
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
And with fear and trembling stand
Ponder nothing earthly minded
For with blessing in His hand
Christ our God to earth descendeth
Our full homage to demand

Verse 2
King of Kings yet born of Mary
As of old on earth He stood
Lord of lords in human vesture
In the Body and the Blood
He will give to all the faithful
His own self for heavenly food

Communion

Godhead Here In Hiding

Verse 1
Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore
Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more.
See Lord, at Thy service, low lies here a heart
Lost, all lost in wonder at the God Thou art.

Verse 2
Seeing, touching, tasting, are in Thee deceived;
How says trusty hearing? That shall be believed;
What God's Son has told me, take for truth I do;
Truth Himself speaks truly, or there's nothing true.

Verse 3
On the cross Thy Godhead made no sign to men;
Here Thy very manhood steals from human ken:
Both are my confession, both are my belief,
And I pray the same prayer as the dying thief.

Verse 4
I am not like Thomas, wounds I cannot see,
But can plainly call Thee Lord and God as He:
This faith each day deeper, be my holding of,
Daily make me harder hope and dearer love.

Recessional

Alma Redemptoris Mater

Lyrics
Alma Redemptoris Mater
quae pervia caeli porta manes,
et stella maris, succurre cadenti,
Surgere qui curat, populo:
tu quae genuisti,
Natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem
Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore
Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.