Those of you who are Unitarian Universalists know that our 1993 hymnal made some interesting changes to the words of some favorite Christmas carols, such as “Joy to the world, the Word is come\/Let earth prepare a room.” Yes, it’s appropriately de-genderized, but it’s not fun to sing.<\/p>\n
Here at First Unitarian in New Bedford, rather than use some of those new words, we just print more traditional Unitarian and Universalist words in our order of service. Thinking that others might be doing the same thing, I thought I’d upload the text files of the words we use so that others who wanted to could also insert them into orders of service (no reason someone else has to type these up again).<\/p>\n
You’ll find the text file here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Update: PDF file:<\/strong> Thanks to Ed S., this file is now available as a PDF file — instead of formatting it yourself, you can just print it out! Link<\/a>. Also, I’ve placed an HTML version on my web site that allows you to jump to individual songs: Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n Angels We Have Heard On High<\/em> The First Nowell<\/em> God Rest You Unitarians<\/em> Hark! The Herald Angels Sing<\/em> It Came Upon The Midnight Clear<\/em> Joy To The World<\/em> O Come, All Ye Faithful<\/em> O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel)<\/em> O Little Town of Bethlehem<\/em> O Tannenbaum<\/em> On This Day<\/em> Silent Night<\/em> …and a few others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Those of you who are Unitarian Universalists know that our 1993 hymnal made some interesting changes to the words of some favorite Christmas carols, such as “Joy to the world, the Word is come\/Let earth prepare a room.” Yes, it’s appropriately de-genderized, but it’s not fun to sing. Here at First Unitarian in New Bedford, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[533],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engaging-worship","tag-christmas-carol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7339,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/7339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nvv. 1, 2, & 5 from Hymns of the Spirit, 1937
\nvv. 3 & 4 from Hymns for the Celebration of Life, 1964<\/p>\n
\nas it appears in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937<\/p>\n
\nfrom Hymns for the Cerebration of Strife, by Rev. Christopher G. Raible, 1972<\/p>\n
\nas it appears in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937<\/p>\n
\nas it appears in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937<\/p>\n
\nas it appears in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937<\/p>\n
\nas it appears in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937
\nEnglish and Latin words<\/p>\n
\nas it appears in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937<\/p>\n
\nas it appears in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937<\/p>\n
\nGerman and English words (I use this when talking about Charles Follen, the Unitarian minister who was born in Germany and brought the Christmas tree tradition to America)<\/p>\n
\nas it appears in Hymns for the Celebration of Life, 1964<\/p>\n
\nadapted from Hymns of the Spirit, 1937<\/p>\n