My mom just found this old book of Christmas songs. A good one, with pictures and lengthy historical notes to go with each song. Maybe only 20% of the songs are songs I know or have heard of. The rest are new to me.
There is one that may well become one of my very favorite Christmas songs - In dulci iubilo, which previously I knew only by name, from the credits of Good Christian Men Rejoice, which is a very loose paraphrase of it. It was written half in Latin(!) and half in German(!) by the Fourteenth Century Dominican mystic Bl. Henry of Suso(!), or perhaps by the angels he saw in his dream(!!).
Also in the book, a traditional Irish carol full of the Church triumphant and militant exulting in Christmas.
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