Lully, Lulla, Lullay

From Fr. John Zulsdorf (wdtprs.com/blog):

I have written about the

breath-taking,
throat-choking,
eye-blurring

composition of Philip Stopford, “Lully, Lulla, Lullay”.

This is the “Conventry Carol” about the Holy Innocents, a carol in some ways so heart-piercing that it seems out of step with Christmastide, except that the joyous season embraces also Childermas, and that the wood of the crib foretells the wood of the Cross.

The words of this lullaby of perfect pain are:

Lully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Lullay, thou little tiny Child,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
O sisters too, how may we do,
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling for whom we do sing
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Herod, the king, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day
His men of might, in his owne sight,
All young children to slay.
That woe is me, poor Child for Thee!
And ever mourn and sigh,
For thy parting neither say nor sing,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.

A choir from St. John Cantius in Chicago, of young people, went to the Illinois state capitol building and sang it in the rotunda.

As you know, Illinois is working on hideous laws, extreme Party of Death laws.

Dems. Herodians.

Fr. Z kudos.

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