Here’s my chapel and Crib at this most magical feast of the liturgical calendar.
| CHRISTE, Redemptor omnium, ex Patre, Patris unice, solus ante principium natus ineffabiliter,1 |
JESU, the Father’s only Son, whose death for all redemption won, before the worlds, of God most high, begotten all ineffably. |
| Tu lumen, tu splendor Patris, tu spes perennis omnium, intende quas fundunt preces tui per orbem servuli. |
The Father’s Light and Splendor Thou their endless Hope to Thee that bow: accept the prayers and praise today that through the world Thy servants pay. |
| Salutis auctor, recole quod nostri quondam corporis, ex illibata Virgine nascendo, formam sumpseris.2 |
Salvation’s author, call to mind how, taking the form of humankind, born of a Virgin undefiled, Thou in man’s flesh becamest a Child. |
| Hic praesens testatur dies, currens per anni circulum, quod a solus sede Patris mundi salus adveneris;3 |
Thus testifies the present day Through every year in long array, that Thou, salvation’s source alone proceedest from the Father’s Throne. |
| Hunc caelum, terra, hunc mare, hunc omne quod in eis est, auctorem adventus tui laudat exsultans cantico.4 |
Whence sky, and stars, and sea’s abyss, and earth, and all that therein is, shall still, with laud and carol meet, the Author of thine Advent greet. |
| Nos quoque, qui sancto tuo redempti sumus sanguine, ob diem natalis tui hymnum novum concinimus.5 |
And we who, by Thy precious Blood from sin redeemed, are marked for God, on this, the day that saw Thy Birth, sing the new song of ransomed earth. |
| Iesu, tibi sit gloria, qui natus es de Virgine, cum Patre et almo Spiritu, in sempiterna saecula. Amen. |
All honor, laud, and glory be, O Iesu, Virgin-born, to Thee; whom with the Father we adore, and Holy Ghost forevermore. Amen. |
The Blue Flower 
Thank you for the glimpses, and the Hymn!
If I ever knew anything about the latter, I have (sadly) forgotten it – but was delighted to find this, in trying to check about its place in the Use of Sarum:
https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/NonEnglish/christe_redemptor_omnium.htm