The first one is called "The Time Has Come". The graphics look rather Commodore 64, don't they? Oldfield make the computer graphics animation himself, or so I've heard. I listened to this song many many times before I ever saw the video. The lyrics describe the coming of a messiah. I thought it fit Jesus, somewhat. Part of them appear below:
"A thousand years they waited for
someone who would be true
and now the empty years have passed
the sunlight shines anew
(Chorus)
Someone who knows no fear
I feel him near
The child was born to be a king, a king,
And The Time Has Come
He tamed the wild wind when he passed
the birds and beasts he knew
until he came to rest at last
the tall gates he passed through..."
If not Jesus, perhaps they at least fit Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn. Yet in Oldfield's video, it appears that the song is about King Tut.
The next one was actually a big hit in the UK, but it just about unknown in the US. It's "In Dulci Jubilo". It is best known as "Good Christian Men Rejoice". There is even a modern painfully politically-correct version that is "Good Christian Friends Rejoice". In the US, probably the best known version of "In Dulci Jubilo" is the one by Mannheim Steamroller.
Oldfield has also done a version of "Silent Night":
Finally, there is a Christmas-related track on Oldfield's uneven album entitled "The Millennium Bell". The lyrics to the track, "Peace on Earth", are short and simple:
"In a manger lying
Silent stars are shining
Rest in dreamless slumber
Eyes around all in wonder
Heaven and earth are turning
Round the hearth fire is burning
Sheltered from the cruel storm
Peace on earth is new born"






