Hymn: Personent Hodie

Personent hodie
voces puerulae,
laudantes iucunde
qui nobis est natus,
summo Deo datus,

et de vir, vir, vir
et de vir, vir, vir
et de virgineo ventre procreatus.

Magi tres venerunt,

munera offerunt,
parvulum inquirunt,
stellulam sequendo,
ipsum adorando,
aurum, thus, thus, thus,
aurum, thus, thus, thus,
aurum, thus, et myrrham ei offerendo.

Omnes clericuli,

pariter pueri,
cantent ut angeli:
advenisti mundo,
laudes tibi fundo.
Ideo, o, o,
Ideo, o, o,
ideo gloria in excelsis Deo.

Singers and Musicians: L'Orphon de Trois-Rivires with the choir of Pauvres de St-Franois | Words and Music: Traditional (12th-15thC) | Arrangement: Holst

[translation to English

On this day earth shall ring

with the song children sing
to the Lord, Christ our King,
born on earth to save us;
him the Father gave us

Id-e-o-o-o, id-e-o-o-o,
Id-e-o gloria in excelsis Deo!

God's bright star, o'er his head,

Wise Men three to him led;
kneel they low by his bed,
lay their gifts before him,
praise him and adore him.

Id-e-o-o-o, id-e-o-o-o,
Id-e-o gloria in excelsis Deo!

On this day angels sing;

with their song earth shall ring,
praising Christ, heaven's King,
born on earth to save us;
peace and love he gave us.

Id-e-o-o-o, id-e-o-o-o,
Id-e-o gloria in excelsis Deo!

by Jane M. Joseph]