Each year at Christmas, Gloriae Dei Cantores celebrates the “dawn of redeeming grace” with a traditional candlelit Service of Readings and Carols, retelling the stories of Christ’s birth that stir us with memories and hopes for peace and love. Just for a time as you listen to these carols and stories, let your heart fill with gratitude for our many blessings, and with goodwill toward others. Gloriae Dei Cantores offers this recording with a prayer that the joy of the season brings you renewed hope and a fresh sense of wonder!

Songs:

• Welcome by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Reading: Matthew 1-18-21 (NKJV) by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• O Prince of Peace! O Sharon’s Dewy Rose by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• A Tender Shoot by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Reading: Matthew 1:22-25 (NKJV) by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Shall I Tell You Who Will Come to Bethlehem? by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• A Child’s Welcome: From a Celebration of Carols by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Carol of the Star by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Reading: Matthew 2:1-6 (NKJV) by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Willow Carol by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• On Christmas Day in the Morn by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• O Come, All Ye Faithful by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Reading: Matthew 2:7-11 (NKJV) by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• In the Bleak Midwinter by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• The Holly and the Ivy by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Reading: Matthew 2:12-15 (NKJV) by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Nativity Carol by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Angels We Have Heard on High by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Reading: Matthew 2:16-18 (NKJV) by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Missa ad Praesepe (Mass at the Crib): Kyrie by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Missa ad Praesepe (Mass at the Crib): Gloria by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Missa ad Praesepe (Mass at the Crib): Sanctus/Benedictus by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Missa ad Praesepe (Mass at the Crib): Agnus Dei by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Silent Night by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Reading: Matthew 2:19-23 (NKJV) by Gloriae Dei Cantores
• Infant Holy, Infant Lowly by Gloriae Dei Cantores