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Emanuel
St. Louis Jesuits Lyrics

Baby born in a stall, long ago now, and hard to recall.
Cold wind, darkness and sin, Your welcoming from us all.

How can it be true? A world grown so old now, how can it be new?
Sorrow′s end, God—send, born now for me and you.
Emanuel, Emanuel,
What are we that You have loved us so well?
A song on high, a Savior's nigh,
Angel hosts rejoice Thy glory to tell.
Babe on mother′s knee, child so soon to be nailed to a tree.

All praise till the end of our days: 0 Lord, You have set us free.
Emanuel, Emanuel,
What are we that You have loved us so well?
A song on high, a Savior's nigh,
Angel hosts rejoice Thy glory to tell.

Writer(s): Tim Manion

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The St. Louis Jesuits are a group of Catholic composers who popularized a contemporary style of church music through their compositions and recordings in the 1970s and 1980s. The group, made up of Jesuit scholastics at Saint Louis University, originally used acoustic guitars and pop-style melodies and rhythms to set Biblical and other religious texts to music sung in English in response to the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
Without intent Read Full BioThe St. Louis Jesuits are a group of Catholic composers who popularized a contemporary style of church music through their compositions and recordings in the 1970s and 1980s. The group, made up of Jesuit scholastics at Saint Louis University, originally used acoustic guitars and pop-style melodies and rhythms to set Biblical and other religious texts to music sung in English in response to the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
Without intent, a groundswell of popularity took place when students, seminarians, and women religious took stenciled mimeographed copies of their new music back to their communities where it became known as music by the "St. Louis Jesuits."