Christmas Song #4: Index and Resources
This year our special focus was on the Christmas carol Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, in some ways one of the oldest carols of all. Here you can read all the posts in order, and check out a few other related resources.
- Christmas Song #4: One of the Oldest! – Introduction, and the origins of this unusual carol.
- Christmas Song #4: A Reason For Silence – The real reason for the “silence” in this carol.
- Christmas Song #4: “Heavenly Food” – What is the “heavely food” in this carol? Let’s hear Jesus Himself explain.
- Christmas Song #4: The Light Descends – It’s not just a big crowd of angels. It’s an army.
- Christmas Song #4: The Focus of the Angels – And, actually, the focus of the entire song, in the final verse.
If you’d like to learn more about this carol, check out:
- Tune and musical score of the melody “Picardy”
- Historical notes on the text from the Hymnology Archive
- I used the text from The Cyber Hymnal
- One of my Dad’s articles on Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
- The Liturgy of St. James in English (scroll down for the Cherubic Hymn, on which the carol is based)
- An early publication (1864) of the carol in Lyra Eucharistica
- A few versions of the carol to enjoy: