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The distinction jibed with my comfort in singing "Silent Night" or "Adeste Fideles" during school assemblies -- and my discomfort at bringing my lips to form words such as "Christ the Lord."
Arnold M. Eisen: A Jew At Christmas Arnold M. Eisen 2010
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Zon explains that the “Fideles” were faithful Catholic Jacobites.
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Unless you live 10 miles up a box canyon deep in the Wasatch Range with only your dog Boomer and are demented from drinking bad water, you are inhaling Christmas night and day and “Adeste Fideles” is stuck in your head like a 5-inch nail.
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My mother, a Sussex woman with a Catholic upbringing tells me that when she was young they would sing "Adeste Fideles" when carol singing, yes, in Latin, in order to annoy the Prots.
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"Adeste Fideles seems to have lost its Jacobite meanings not long after Wade's last published book in 1773," said Prof Zon
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Unless you live 10 miles up a box canyon deep in the Wasatch Range with only your dog Boomer and are demented from drinking bad water, you are inhaling Christmas night and day and “Adeste Fideles” is stuck in your head like a 5-inch nail.
December « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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The distinction jibed with my comfort in singing "Silent Night" or "Adeste Fideles" during school assemblies -- and my discomfort at bringing my lips to form words such as "Christ the Lord."
Arnold M. Eisen: A Jew At Christmas Arnold M. Eisen 2010
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"Adeste Fideles seems to have lost its Jacobite meanings not long after Wade's last published book in 1773," said Prof Zon
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It's hard to listen Dylan squawking "Adeste Fideles" with the finesse of Lyle Alzado and not laugh just a little.
Sal Nunziato: Compact Reviews of This Week's Compact Discs, for Those Who Still Care #7 2009
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It\'s hard to listen Dylan squawking \ "Adeste Fideles\" with the finesse of Lyle Alzado and not laugh just a little.
Sal Nunziato: Compact Reviews of This Week's Compact Discs, for Those Who Still Care #7 2009
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