Christmas Blessings (Geoff Allan)
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- (Posted 2025-03-09) CPDL #84160:
- Editor: Geoff Allan (submitted 2025-03-09). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 594 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: The setting is of two intermingled Christmas Blessing texts, the first is by an anonymous author, the second (partial setting) is attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), author of “Treasure Island” and much more.
General Information
Title: Christmas Blessings
Composer: Geoff Allan
Lyricists: Anonymous and Robert Louis Stevenson
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol, Christmas
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 2025
Description: The setting is of two intermingled Christmas Blessing texts, the first is by an anonymous author, the second (partial setting) is attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), author of “Treasure Island” and much more.
(The words in italics in the text section have not been set in this piece.)
External websites:
- Composers website : http://allans.org.uk
- YouTube score video : https://youtu.be/JIoin7_mr1g
Original text and translations
English text
May the blessing of joy abide within you;
May the blessing of peace rest upon you;
May the blessing of love flow out through you;
May all the blessings of the Lord be yours at Christmas
and in the New Year,
Amen
Author : Anon
Loving Father, Help us remember the birth of Jesus,
that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.
Close the door of hate and open the door of love all over the world.
Let kindness come with every gift and good desires with every greeting.
Deliver us from evil by the blessing which Christ brings, and teach us to be merry with clear hearts.
May the Christmas morning make us happy to be Thy children,
and the Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts,
forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus’ sake.
Amen.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)