I sort of associate it with the less well-attended services (like Christmas morning in a church where the Midnight Mass or 9L&C is the "big one").
It's got quite a few verses, and with the refrains in between, it's quite a long sing. Kind of in the same category as The first nowell, if you see what I mean.
It's a usefully long Offertory hymn, if Your Place is the sort which needs time to prepare the altar, swing the incense etc. etc., especially if you've already had While shepherds watched for that purpose at a previous service.
Mind you, Of the Father's love begotten is IMHO a much better choice, but that, too, perhaps, is not particularly well-known.
Does anyone else think See Amid The Winter's Snow (yes, yes, consider it metaphorical rather than meteorological snow) is underused?
Yes, I do.
Yes, I do too, together with my favourite "In the Bleak Midwinter". I've tried to explain to Mr Nen and to others who huff and puff about the fact that it wasn't winter and it wasn't snowy that it's a metaphorically bleak and frosty place into which the one whom cherubim worship night and day comes as a baby. He and they look at me as though I'm going mad.
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https://youtu.be/52r4WBXM2GQ
It's got quite a few verses, and with the refrains in between, it's quite a long sing. Kind of in the same category as The first nowell, if you see what I mean.
It wouldn't make it into my top 20, but it's OK.
Yes, not often sung ime but I do rather like it
See, the tender lamb appears...
Mmmm... lamb...
It's a usefully long Offertory hymn, if Your Place is the sort which needs time to prepare the altar, swing the incense etc. etc., especially if you've already had While shepherds watched for that purpose at a previous service.
Mind you, Of the Father's love begotten is IMHO a much better choice, but that, too, perhaps, is not particularly well-known.
That's going to cost a few years in Purgatory...
(Similarly, "If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb.")
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A post from @Enoch on the Don't Like thread reminded me of a version of While Shepherds Watched which I do like, but haven't sung in years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRhRuCkxC6k
Agreed, this is so underknown