Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble.
Singers: Anna Pope, Kate Tretheway, Fiona O’Connor, Rosemary Byron-Scott, Melinda Pike, Tim Muecke, Clive Conway, Kenneth Pope, Andrew McCauley, Peter Deane, Bernard Mageean & Andrew Bettison.
Recorded by Kenneth Pope and Andrew Bettison
Christ Church, North Adelaide, South Australia, April 2012
Lyrics:
Nowell sing we both all and some,
Now Rex pacificus is ycome.
Ex ortum est in love and liss,
now Christ his grace he gan us giss,
and with his body us bought to bliss
both all and some.
De fructu ventris of Mary bright
both God and man in her alight,
out of disease he did us dight
both all and some.
Gloria tibi ay and bliss;
God unto his grace he us wiss,
the rent of heaven that we not miss
both all and some.
Thank you.
As a side note: there seems to be some kooky Christians (imagine that) who are trying to say that “Noel (Nowell)” is to be seen as no-el as in “no god”…smh…