With an up-tempo and joyous melody, Gaudete is perhaps the most well-known Christmas carol performed in Latin. It is thought to have been written in the 16th century, and was published in 1582 in a ...

“Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus est natus.” It stays there for a while ...