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Christmas in Vermont 1984
12/25/1984 | 58m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Originally broadcast in 1984, a traditional service of lessons and carols.
Originally broadcast in 1984 on Vermont ETV, this traditional service of lessons and carols features the Middlebury College Choir, presented in this delightfully staged New England celebration of Christmas. Recorded at the Mead Memorial Chapel on the campus of Middlebury College.
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Christmas in Vermont 1984
12/25/1984 | 58m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Originally broadcast in 1984 on Vermont ETV, this traditional service of lessons and carols features the Middlebury College Choir, presented in this delightfully staged New England celebration of Christmas. Recorded at the Mead Memorial Chapel on the campus of Middlebury College.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> IN THE SPIRIT OF THIS SEASON, THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THIS PROGRAM POSSIBLE.
THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY ALONG WITH THE PEOPLE OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT HE CAN TEND TO YOU THEIR BEST WISHES FOR A WARM AND JOYOUS HOLIDAY.
[BELLS TOLLING] [WOLCUM YOLE] HALLELUJAH ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA WOLCUM, WOLCUM WOLCUM BE THOU HEVEN KING WOLCUM YOLE!
WOLCUM, BORN IN ONE MORNING WOLCUM FOR WHO WE SHALL SING!
WOLCUM BE YE, STEVENE AND JON WOLCUM, INNOCENTES EVERY ONE WOLCUM, THOMAS MARTER ONE WOLCUM BE YE, GOOD NEWE YERE WOLCUM, TWELFTHE DAY BOTH IN FERE WOLCUM, SEINTES LEFE AND DERE WOLCUM YOLE, WOLCUM YOLE, WOLCUM YOLE, WOLCUM YOLE, WOLCUM YOLE, WOLCUM YOLE, THERE IS NO ROSE OF SUCH VIRTUE.
AS IS THE ROSE THAT BARE JESU; ALLELUIA ALLELUIA FOR IN THIS ROSE CONTAINED WAS HEAVEN AND EARTH IN LITTLE FOR IN THIS ROSE CONTAINED RES MIRANDA.
RES MIRANDA.
BY THAT ROSE WE MAY WELL SEE THERE BE ONE GOD IN PERSONS THREE PARESFORMA.
PARESFORMA.
THE ANGELS SUNGEN THE SHEPHERDS TO: GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO: GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO: GAUDEAMUS.
GAUDEAMUS.
LEAVE WE ALL THIS WORLDLY MIRTH AND FOLLOW WE THIS JOYFUL BIRTH; TRANSEAMUS.
TRANSEAMUS.
TRANSEAMUS.
ALLELUIA, RESMIRANDA PARES FORMA, GAUDEAMUS TRANSEAMUS.
TRANSEAMUS.
TRANSEAMUS O MY DEARE HERT, YOUNG JESU SWEIT PREPARE THY CREDDIL IN MY SPREIT AND I SALL ROCK THEE TO MY HERT AND NEVER MAIR FROM THEE DEPART.
BUT I SALL PRAISE THEE EVERMOIR WITH SANGES SWEIT UNTO THY GLOIR; THE KNEES OF MY HEART SALL I BOW AND SING THAT RICHT BALULALOW!
AND SING THAT RICHT BALULALOW!
AND SING THAT RICHT BALULALOW!
I SING OF A MAIDEN THAT IS MATCHLESS KING OF ALL KINGS FOR HER SON SHE CHOSE.
HE CAME AS STILL WHERE HIS MOTHER WAS AS DEW IN APRIL THAT FALLS ON THE GRASS.
HE CAME AS STILL TO HIS MOTHER'S BOWER AS DEW IN APRIL HE CAME AS STILL WHERE HIS MOTHER LAY AS DEW IN APRIL THAT FALLS ON THE SPRAY.
MOTHER AND MAIDEN THERE WAS NEVER, EVER ONE BUT SHE; WELL MAY SUCH A LADY GOD'S MOTHER BE.
THIS LITTLE BABE SO FEW DAYS GOD'S MOTHER BE.
IS COME TO RIFLE SATAN'S FOLD; ALL HELL DOTH AT HIS PRESENCE QUAKE THOUGH HE HIMSELF FOR COLD DOTH SHAKE; FOR IN THIS WEAK UNARMED WISE DOTH SHAKE; SURPRISE.
WITH TEARS HE FIGHTS AND WINS THE FIELD HIS TINY BREAST STANDS FOR A SHIELD; HIS BATTERING SHOT ARE BABISH SHIELD; HIS ARROWS LOOKS OF WEEPING EYES HIS MARTIAL ENSIGNS COLD AND NEED AND FEEBLE FLESH HIS WARRIOR'S STEED.
HIS CAMP IS BUILDED IN A STALL HIS BULWARK BUT A BROKEN WALL HIS CAMP IS BUILDED IN A STALL HIS STAKES OF SHEPHERDS HE HIS ARMY MAKES; OF SHEPHERDS HE HIS ARMY WOUND OF SHEPHERDS HE HIS ARMY PLEASURE IT IS TO HEAR IWIS THE BIRDES SING.
THE DEER IN THE DALE THE SHEEP IN THE VALE THE DEER IN THE DALE PLEASURE IT IS THE DEER IN THE DALE THE BIRDES SING.
THE DEER IN THE DALE THE SHEEP IN THE VALE THE CORN SPRINGING.
GOD'S PURVAYANCE FOR SUSTENANCE IT IS FOR MAN, IT IS FOR MAN.
THEN WE ALWAYS TO GIVE HIM PRAISE AND THANK HIM THAN.
AND THANK HIM THAN.
AND THANK HIM THAN.
AND THANK HIM THAN.
["DEO GRACIAS"] DEO GRACIAS!
DEO GRACIAS!
ADAM LAY IBOUDEN BOUDEN IN A BOND; FOR THOUSAND WINTER THOUGHT HE NOT TOO LONG.
DEO GRACIAS!
DEO GRACIAS!
AND ALL WAS FOR AN APPIL AN APPIL THAT HE TOK AS CLERKES FINDEN WRITTEN IN THEIR BOOK.
DEO GRACIAS!
DEO GRACIAS!
NE HAD THE APPIL TAKE BEN THE APPIL TAKE BEN NE HADDE NEVER OUR LADY A BEN HEVENE QUENE.
BLESSED BE THE TIME THAT APPIL TAKE WAS.
THEREFORE WE MOUN SINGEN.
WE MOUN SINGEN.
WE MOUN SINGEN.
DEO GRACIAS!
DEO GRACIAS!
DEO GRACIAS!
DEO GRACIAS!
DEO GRACIAS!
DEO GRACIAS!
[SINGING IN LATIN] >> HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH >> A READING FORM THE PROPHET ISAIAH: IN THE YEAR THAT KING UZZIAH DIED, I SAW ALSO THE LORD SITTING UPON A THRONE, HIGH AND LIFTED UP, AND HIS TRAIN FILLED SITTING UPON A THRONE, HIGH AND ABOVE IT STOOD THE SERAPHIMS: EACH ONE HAD SIX WINGS; WITH TWAIN HE COVERED HIS FACE, AND WITH TWAIN HE COVERED HIS FEET, AND WITH TWAIN HE DID FLY.
AND ONE CRIED UNTO ANOTHER, AND SAID, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, IS THE LORD OF HOSTS: THE WHOLE EARTH IS FULL OF HIS GLORY.
AND THE POSTS OF THE DOOR MOVED AT THE VOICE OF HIM THAT CRIED, AND THE HOUSE WAS FILLED WITH SMOKE.
THEN SAID I, WOE IS ME!
FOR I AM UNDONE; BECAUSE I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS, AND I DWELL IN THE MIDST OF A PEOPLE OF UNCLEAN LIPS: FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE KING, THE LORD OF HOSTS.
THEN FLEW ONE OF THE SERAPHIMS UNTO ME, HAVING A LIVE COAL IN HIS HAND, WHICH HE HAD TAKEN WITH THE TONGS FROM OFF THE HIS HAND, WHICH HE HAD TAKEN AND HE LAID IT UPON MY MOUTH, AND SAID, LO, THIS HATH TOUCHED THY LIPS; AND THINE INIQUITY IS TAKEN AWAY, AND THY SIN PURGED.
ALSO I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD, SAYING, WHOM SHALL I SEND, AND WHO WILL GO FOR US?
THEN SAID I, HERE AM I; SEND ME.
AND HE SAID, GO, AND TELL THIS PEOPLE, HEAR YE INDEED, BUT UNDERSTAND NOT; AND SEE YE INDEED, BUT PERCEIVE NOT.
MAKE THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE FAT, AND MAKE THEIR EARS HEAVY, AND SHUT THEIR EYES; LEST THEY SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND CONVERT, AND BE HEALED.
VIRGA JESSE FLORUIT: VIRGA JESSE FLORUIT: VIRGA JESSE FLORUIT: VIRGO DEUM ET HOMINEM GENUIT: PACEM DEUS REDDIDIT PACEM DEUS REDDIDIT PACEM DEUS REDDIDIT IN SE IN SE IN SE IN SE RECONCILIANS IMA SUMMIS.
ALLELUJA ALLELUJA ALLELUJA ALLELUJA ALLELUJA ALLELUJA ALLELUJA ALLELUJA >> A READING FROM THE PROPHET ISAIAH.
COMFORT YE, COMFORT YE MY PEOPLE, SAITH YOUR GOD.
SPEAK YE COMFORTABLY TO PEOPLE, SAITH YOUR GOD.
THAT HER WARFARE IS ACCOMPLISHED, THAT HER INIQUITY IS PARDONED: FOR SHE HATH RECEIVED OF THE LORD'S HAND DOUBLE FOR ALL HER SINS.
THE VOICE OF HIM THAT CRIETH IN THE WILDERNESS, PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE STRAIGHT IN THE DESERT A HIGHWAY FOR OUR GOD.
EVERY VALLEY SHALL BE EXALTED, AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND HILL EVERY VALLEY SHALL BE EXALTED, CROOKED SHALL BE MADE STRAIGHT, AND THE ROUGH PLACES PLAIN: AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHALL BE REVEALED, AND ALL FLESH SHALL SEE IT TOGETHER: FOR THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HATH SPOKEN IT.
THE VOICE SAID, CRY.
AND HE SAID, WHAT SHALL I CRY?
ALL FLESH IS GRASS, AND ALL THE GOODLINESS THEREOF IS AS THE FLOWER OF THE FIELD: THE GRASS WITHERETH, THE FLOWER FADETH: BECAUSE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD BLOWETH UPON IT: SURELY THE PEOPLE IS GRASS.
THE GRASS WITHERETH, THE FLOWER FADETH: BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD >> A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST.
LUKE.
AND IN THE SIXTH MONTH THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT FROM GOD UNTO A CITY OF GALILEE, NAMED NAZARETH TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH, OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID; AND THE VIRGIN'S NAME WAS MARY.
AND HE CAME TO HER, AND SAID, HAIL, THOU THAT ART HIGHLY AND HE CAME TO HER, AND SAID, BLESSED ART THOU AMONG WOMEN.
AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM, SHE WAS TROUBLED AT HIS SAYING, AND CAST IN HER MIND WHAT MANNER OF TROUBLED AT HIS SAYING, AND CAST AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO HER, DO NOT BE AFRAID, MARY: FOR THOU HAST FOUND FAVOUR WITH GOD.
DO NOT BE AFRAID, MARY: FOR THOU IN THY WOMB, AND BRING FORTH A DO NOT BE AFRAID, MARY: FOR THOU HE SHALL BE GREAT, AND SHALL BE CALLED THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH: AND THE LORD GOD SHALL GIVE UNTO CALLED THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH: ANHIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHERTO HOUSE OF JACOB FOR EVER; AND OF HIS KINGDOM THERE WILL BE NO END.
["CHRISTMAS CANTATA" BY DANIEL ["CHRISTMAS CANTATA" BY DANIEL ["CHRISTMAS CANTATA" BY DANIEL PINKHAM] ["CHRISTMAS CANTATA" BY DANIEL PINKHAM] ["CHRISTMAS CANTATA" BY DANIEL ["CHRISTMAS CANTATA" BY DANIEL ["CHRISTMAS CANTATA" BY DANIEL ["O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM"] ["O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM"] GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO ALLELUIA ALLELUIA >> A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF LUKE.
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, THAT THERE WENT OUT A AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED.T AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE AND ALL WENT TO BE TAXED, EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN CITY.
AND JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE, OUT OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH, INTO JUDAEA, UNTO THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CALLED BETHLEHEM; BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE HOUSE AND LINEAGE OF DAVID: TO BE TAXED WITH MARY HIS ESPOUSED WIFE, BEING GREAT WITH CHILD.
AND SO IT WAS, THAT, WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED THAT SHE SHOULD BE DELIVERED.
AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER; BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN.
AND THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS ABIDING IN THE FIELD, KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT.
AND, LO, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME UPON THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE ROUND ABOUT THEM: CAME UPON THEM, AND THE GLORY OF AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO THEM, FEAR NOT: FOR, BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY, WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE.
FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOUR, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD.
AND THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO YOU; YE SHALL FIND THE BABE WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, LYING IN A MANGER.
AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD, AND SAYING GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH >> A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST.
JOHN.
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD.
THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD.
ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM; AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANY THING MADE THAT WAS MADE.
IN HIM WAS LIFE; AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN.
AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT.
THERE WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD, WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN.
THE SAME CAME FOR A WITNESS, TO BEAR WITNESS OF THE LIGHT, THAT ALL MEN THROUGH HIM MIGHT BELIEVE.
HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT, BUT WAS SENT TO BEAR WITNESS OF THAT HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT, BUT WAS THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT, WHICH LIGHTETH EVERY MAN THAT COMETH INTO THE WORLD.
HE WAS IN THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD WAS MADE BY HIM, AND THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT.
HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN, AND HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT.
BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM GAVE HE POWER TO BECOME THE SONS OF GOD, EVEN TO THEM THAT BELIEVE ON HIS NAME: WHICH WERE BORN, NOT OF BLOOD, NOR OF THE WILL OF THE FLESH, NOR OF THE WILL OF MAN, BUT OF GOD.
AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, AND DWELT AMONG US, AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY, THE GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID HOSANNA HOSANNA HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID HOSANNA HOSANNA HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID HOSANNA HOSANNA HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID HOSANNA HOSANNA HOSANNA HOSANNA HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID HOSANNA HOSANNA BLESSED BE THE KING THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD BLESSED BE THE KING THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD BLESSED BE THE KING THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD BLESSED BE THE KING THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD HOSANNA HOSANNA HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID HOSANNA HOSANNA HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID HOSANNA HOSANNA HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID HOSANNA HOSANNA HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT!
ALL IS CALM, ALL IS BRIGHT.
ROUND YON VIRGIN, MOTHER AND CHILD.
HOLY INFANT SO TENDER AND MILD SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT!
SHEPHERDS QUAKE AT THE SIGHT.
GLORIES STREAM FROM HEAVEN AFAR HEAVENLY HOSTS SING ALLELUIA CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN!
CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT!
SON OF GOD LOVE'S PURE LIGHT.
RADIANT BEAMS FROM THY HOLY FACE WITH DAWN OF REDEEMING GRACE JESUS LORD, AT THY BIRTH JESUS LORD AT THY BIRTH >> LET US PRAY.
SO MOVE THE HEARTS OF THOSE TO WHOM THOU HAST FREELY GIVEN ALL THINGS THAT THEY ALSO MAY FREELY GIVE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL JOYFUL AND TRIUMPHANT O COME YE, O COME YE TO BETHLEHEM COME AND BEHOLD HIM BORN THE KING OF ANGELS!
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM O COME, LET US ADORE HIM O COME, LET US ADORE HIM CHRIST THE LORD O COME YE, O COME YE TO BETHLEHEM O COME, LET US ADORE HIM O COME, LET US ADORE HIM O COME, LET US ADORE HIM CHRIST THE LORD.
OH, SING, CHOIRS OF ANGELS SING IN EXULTATION SING ALL YE CITIZENS OF HEAVEN ABOVE.
GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST.
O COME LET US ADORE HIM.
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM O COME, LET US ADORE HIM CHRIST THE LORD YAY LORD WE GREET THEE ON THIS SABBATH MORNING.
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM O COME, LET US ADORE HIM O COME, LET US ADORE HIM CHRIST THE LORD AMEN >> IN THE SPIRIT OF THIS SEASON, THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THIS PROGRAM MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITYPOSSIBLE.E COLLEGE CH THE PEOPLE OF MIDDLEBURY VERMONT OPPORTUNITYPOSSIBLE.E COLLEGE CH OPPORTUNITYPOSSIBLE.E COLLEGE CH >> FOR MORE CLASSIC PROGRAMS,
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