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    "Lo! He comes with clouds descending" is a Christian hymn by Charles Wesley (1707–1788), based on an earlier hymn, "Lo! He cometh, countless Trumpets"...
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    Excelling", the carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", and "Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending". Wesley was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, the son of Anglican...
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  • Wie soll ich dich empfangen Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus Jesus Christ the Apple Tree Lo! He comes with clouds descending On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's...
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    Dresden amen (category Articles with short description)
    prior to the presentation of the hymn Helmsley with its associated words "Lo, He comes with clouds descending". Carl Davis used the Dresden Amen prominently...
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    Marian hymn of German origin. It is most commonly translated into English as "Lo, how a rose e'er blooming" and is also called "A Spotless Rose" and "Behold...
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  • camest from above (Charles Wesley - music; Samuel Stanley) Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Charles Wesley - music; anon) How firm a foundation (Richard...
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    "Once He Came in Blessing" (LSB 333) confesses that He once came "in likeness lowly" to bear the Cross and save us (st. 1), that He now comes to feed...
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    Saint Nicholas Day (category Articles with Dutch-language sources (nl))
    Austria, in South Tyrol Saint Nicholas comes with krampuses. Instead, in Val Canale (Udine) Saint Nicholas comes to chase the krampuses: after a parade...
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    Advent Sunday (category Articles with short description)
    In the Ambrosian Rite and the Mozarabic Rite, the First Sunday in Advent comes two weeks earlier than in the Roman, being on the Sunday after St. Martin's...
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    God should spare me in health) to comfort other sufferers whom He should also visit with the pestilence. Nicolai's former student, Wilhelm Ernst, Count...
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    Gaudete Sunday (category Articles with short description)
    no anxiety about anything, but in all things, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God. Lord, you have blessed your...
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    Tree of Jesse (category All articles with unsourced statements)
    Gospel writers, Matthew in descending order, and Luke in ascending order. Luke's Gospel's description in chapter 3 begins with Jesus himself and is traced...
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    tune was used with versions of "O come, O come, Emmanuel" in other languages, including Latin. The words and the music of "O come, O come, Emmanuel" developed...
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  • Hymnology (category All articles with dead external links)
    Ken Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, text by Charles Wesley Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending, text by Charles Wesley Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me, text...
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    Helmsley is a Catholic church. The tune 'Helmsley' for the hymn Lo! He comes with clouds descending, dated 1763, is attributed to Thomas Olivers, 1725-1799,...
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    Helmsley, the hymn tune for Lo! He comes with clouds descending Hemsley, surname This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Helmsley. If...
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    Advent calendar (category Articles with short description)
    in theme, from sports to technology. They come in a multitude of forms, from a simple paper calendar with flaps covering each of the days to fabric pockets...
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    Of the Father's Heart Begotten (category Articles with short description)
    the Latin stanzas listed below. The ancient poem was translated and paired with a medieval plainchant melody "Divinum mysterium". "Divinum mysterium" was...
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    Feast of Christ the King (category Articles with short description)
    used on the Feast of Christ the King: "Crown Him with Many Crowns", "Lo! He comes with clouds descending", and "Rejoice, the Lord Is King". In the Presbyterian...
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    Maker verses of Christians, Dismiss Your Fear verses of Lo! He comes with clouds descending He spent much time as an itinerant evangelist in England and...
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    Conditor alme siderum (category Articles with short description)
    on Sundays, beginning with the Saturday preceding the 1st Sunday in Advent. This is First Vespers, prayed around sunset, with Second Vespers held the...
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    Rorate caeli (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    nubes pluant justum" ("Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just"). In the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, this Mass...
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    O Antiphons (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    in their amalgamated form as the hymn "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel". Each text, in the original Latin, begins with the vocative particle "O". Each antiphon...
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    Advent wreath (category Articles with short description)
    People are in dire need of hope." For Christians, that hope comes from the birth of Jesus, he said. For the first week, there is one purple candle lit on...
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    Stir-up Sunday (category Articles with short description)
    ready-made puddings widely available in shops. The term stir-up Sunday comes from the opening words of the collect for the day in the 1549 Book of Common...
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    Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 (category Articles with short description)
    intervention of the continuo, which translates the text into large ascending and descending movements. The second aria, "Bereite dir, Jesu, noch itzo die Bahn" (Prepare...
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    in the areas around him. He also looked at the class divide in Great Britain. Through this train of thought, he wrote "Come, Thou long expected Jesus"...
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    Advent candle (category Articles with short description)
    An Advent candle is a candle marked with the days of December up to Christmas Eve. It is typically used in a household rather than a church setting: each...
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    English: "Savior of the nations, come", literally: Now come, Saviour of the heathen) is a Lutheran chorale of 1524 with words written by Martin Luther,...
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  • Carols for Choirs (category Articles with short description)
    Press Christopher Morris. Whilst working at St George's, Hanover Square, he realised that church choirs lacked a definitive book of Christmas carols,...
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