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To: NYer; Joe 6-pack; lightman; Cletus.D.Yokel; bcsco

For my money the best Advent hymn ever written is Veni Redemptor Gentium. . . .

I can't disagree. It's certainly in the top two, along with Veni Veni Emmanuel.

We have these two hymns in our hymnal, Lutheran Service Book, as "Savior of the Nations, Come" (332) and "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" (357).

5 posted on 12/02/2011 2:42:53 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Lutheran pastor, LCMS)

To: Charles Henrickson; Cletus.D.Yokel

Emmanuel is my favorite.

6 posted on 12/02/2011 2:55:57 PM PST by bcsco (A vote for Cain will cure the Pain!)

To: Charles Henrickson

True, but I have a hard time relegating Philip Nicolai’s “Wake, awake, for night is flying” (aka “the King of chorales) to third place.

16 posted on 12/02/2011 7:18:04 PM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)

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