Words of Reflection
On Sundays during Advent we sit with an instrumental version of a popular carol. There is no written devotional for the day, just an invitation to ponder the words of the carol (found after the video) in a spirit of prayer and listening. What is God’s invitation for you in these words? How do they fill you with hope, with peace, with joy, or with love? What words or phrases in this carol move you to prayer and worship?
Song: Angels We Have Heard on High
Carol Lyrics
Angels we have heard on high
Singing sweetly o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Shepherds why this jubilee
Why these joyous strains prolong
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heav'nly song
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing
Come adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord the newborn King
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Gloria in excelsis Deo
See Him in a manger laid
Whom the choirs of angels praise
Mary Joseph lend your aid
While our hearts in love we raise
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Henri Frederick Hemy | K. Lee Scott