Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming by Shawn Kirchner

Date(s) Performed: November 30

Lyrics

Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming
from tender stem has sprung!
Of Jesse’s lineage coming
as saints of old have sung.
It came, a flow’ret bright,
amid the cold of winter,
when half-spent was the night.

Isaiah ’twas foretold it,
this Rose I have in mind.
With Mary we behold it,
The virgin mother kind.
To show God’s love aright
she bore to us a Savior,
when half-spent was the night.

This flower, whose fragrance tender,
with sweetness fills the air,
Dispels in glorious splendor
the darkness everywhere.
True man, yet very God,
from sin and death he saves us
and lightens every load.