I really enjoy the Advent Carols, perhaps even more so than the Christmas Carols. I think it’s about the expectancy and anticipation of the season. One of my favourites, amongst many, is, “Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending”.
Here it is sung by the choir of Lichfield Cathedral. Words by Charles Wesley rewritten from the original text by John Cennick . All of the pictures used in the video are of Lichfield Cathedral.
Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favoured sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign
Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.
The dear tokens of His passion
Still His dazzling body bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransomed worshippers;
With what rapture, with what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!
Yea, amen; let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdoms for thine own:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.
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