Day 3 or Preparing Your Heart for Advent

"About 800 years after Jesus was born, an unknown monk, schooled in prophecy, wrote a scripture-filled carol, linking the Old and New Testaments.  "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" taught many aspects of the Messiah during a time when average people had little access to the Bible.  The words were coupled with a fifteenth-century Franciscan processional entitled "Veni Emmanuel."  After missionary john Neale discovered and then translated the Latin chant into English in 1851, this hauntingly beautiful carol became popular."--Ann Marie Stewart

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

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 thee, O Israel.

(Isaiah 7:14)

O come thou rod of Jesse, free

Thine own from Satan's tyranny

From depths of hell they people save

And give them vict'ry o'er the grave

(Isaiah 11:1-10)

CHORUS

O come, Thou Dayspring, come and cheer

Our spirits by thine advent here

And drive away the shades of night

And pierce the clouds and bring us light

(Malachi 4:2)

CHORUS

O come, Thou Key of David, come

And open wide our heavenly home

Make safe the way that leads on high

And close the path to misery

(Isaiah 22:22)

CHORUS