Recorded by a virtual choir for the URC-Pfalz online Advent Service 2024.

The annual tradition of the United Reformed Church joining with members of our partner churches in the Pfalz (Palatinate) region of Germany to share in an Advent service has continued for several years.

As an innovation for 2024, we have also invited participation from French partner churches. We have thus sung the second verse of this Advent hymn in French and the third verse in German.

"Joy to the World" was originally written in 1719 by Isaac Watts, an English Congregational minister and groundbreaking, prolific hymn writer. The tune is 'Antioch' based on a melody by Handel in 1742 and adapted by Lowell Mason.

The French translation was by Henri Kunzler in 2005 and the German lyrics were written by Annette Sommer in 1985.

Recorded by a virtual choir for the URC-Pfalz online Advent Service 2024.

The annual tradition of the United Reformed Church joining with members of our partner churches in the Pfalz (Palatinate) region of Germany to share in an Advent service has continued for several years.

"Comfort, comfort now my people" is an Advent hymn, paraphrasing Isaiah 40:1-5, and originally written in German by Johann Olearius (1671). It is set to a Psalm tune by 16th-century French composer Louis Bourgeois and the lyrics were translated into English by Catherine Winkworth (1862).

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