Susan asked for this, Bethlehemian Rhapsody–with puppets, no less. My wife tells me this is patterned after a smash hit by some group called Queen. I try not to know anything about popular music. I’m just posting hymns and Christmas music.
I don’t know why, but today I feel like all I really want to do is post hymns. Must be because Christmas is coming.
Linda asked for O Holy Night, and I chose this rendition by Celtic Woman: very nice, don’t you think?
On the youtube page for this hymn we find several “I’m-an-atheist-but” comments, saying how much they love the music. We sigh. They’re like people standing outside a bakery, loving the aroma that comes drifting out–and declaring that there’s no such thing as cake.
Come in and taste that the Lord is good!
Another contribution from “jessicafischerqueen”–Silent Night sung in Irish, by Enya. Isn’t it nice to be able to celebrate Christmas without the government frowning at you? And so many of these pictures look like the jigsaw puzzles Patty and I give each other for Christmas.
Our friend from Australia, “Optimal Play,” found this one for us: what a rousing rendition of We Three Kings! I don’t know if you have access to the comments, when I post a youtube video; but these guys sing it like they mean it… because they really mean it. Thanks, OP!
This is from our esteemed colleague, “jessicafischerqueen”: The Little Drummer Boy, by Bing Crosby. You could do a lot worse than to spend Christmas Eve with your mother and father and a lot of cozy animals.
By the way, if you’re interested in chess and chess history, visit Jess’ excellent youtube channel.
This Christmas hymn comes to us from the 12th century, when it was sung in Latin. Emmanuel, the Bible tells us, means “God with us.” And how we need Him with us!
O Lord Our God! Bless this Christmas season, and give it power to bring us back to Jesus Christ our only Savior. Amen.
I must be getting soppy in my old age. These Christmas hymns, and the whole idea of Christmas, stir me now as they haven’t since I was a very little boy.
This is The Holly and the Ivy with what I think is the more familiar melody, sung by the Mediaeval Baebes. The running of the deer…
The other night, just before bedtime, Robbie looked out the window and started growling, being the watchcat. I couldn’t see anything because of reflections, so I had to open the window. And there, standing just ten feet away, was a lovely big deer. I’ve been here 40 years, and that’s the first time that’s happened. I choose to think of it as a harbinger of Christmas.
Dear Father in Heaven, give this Christmas season of 2017 the power to draw people’s hearts to Jesus Christ, our natural and rightful Lord, as never before! In Jesus’ name, amen.
(Not sure these are the right decorations… but close enough, I guess)
I heard radio host Mark Simone praising the loveliness of Melania Trump’s White House Christmas decorations; but the next thing I heard on the subject was leftid nooze media idiots having a kazoo over them (https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/anti-trump-media-white-house-christmas-decor-spooky-like-scene-shining/). They called her decorations spooky, creepy, like a scene from The Shining, and so on.
Didn’t hear ’em complaining years ago when then-worst lady Hillary Clinton hung hypodermic needles and condoms from the White House Christmas tree.
Some of these buzzards likened Melania to the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia, as if they’d ever read it. Sheesh. These people root for the White Witch!
I’ll try to find a picture of the decorations; but if I can’t, you can click the news link above–Wordpress fixed it–and get a gander. It’s a little over-the-top for my taste, but who cares?
Do they think they’re fooling us? They’re the ones who are always trying to get Christmas erased altogether–the “Happy Holiday”, cancel-the-Christmas-concert crowd.
Well, that’s the Left for you. Anything good, anything decent, anything sane–they hate it.
Phoebe asked for this one, The Holly and the Ivy; and let’s go first-class, with the Norwich Cathedral Choir.
I didn’t recognize the hymn at first. Like so many other really old hymns, The Holly and the Ivy comes attached to several very different melodies. Which means, folks, you can with a clear conscience ask for it again, and it’ll sound totally different!
Erlene asked for this one: The Midnight Cry, by John Starnes.
And hey, everybody! We’re waiting for your Christmas hymn requests. We need for this Christmas to have extraordinary power to draw people’s hearts to Christ–and I think the music helps with that, so let’s get cracking.