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Our Morning Offering – 25 December – The Nativity of Our Lord, Christmas Day! Adeste FidelisO Come, All Ye Faithful!By John Francis Wade (c1711-1786)Composer, Hymnist, Professor of Music at the Douay Seminary 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!Refrain:O come, let us adore Him,O come, let us adore Him,O…

Our Morning Offering – 8 December – “The Month of the Divine Infancy and the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary” and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception The Stars Retire, When First The Sun …By Fr Frederick Oakeley (1802-1880) The stars retire, when first the SunHis giant race essays to run;Those lamps that stud the arch of nightWax pale before the Fount of Light. One only…