Let’s start the day with Phoebe’s request, Christ Was Born on Christmas Day, by the Robert Shaw Chorale.
I was sick all day yesterday with a wicked allergy attack, and awake all night with sinus toothaches and eye-aches; but I think I’ll be better sometime this afternoon. I’ve just begun to breathe again.
Jan has requested one of my favorites, Angels from the Realms of Glory. I chose this rendition by the King’s College Choir, Cambridge.
Requested by Erlene, Glory, by Carroll Roberson, from his Christmas album.
Now, let’s see if we can push another hymn into the lead with more than 25 views…
Requested by Jeremy, O Come All Ye Faithful: from Il Divo’s 2008 Christmas Concert in London.
Keep the hymns coming, everybody–contest ends at the end of Christmas Day.
Phoebe asked for this one, Go Tell It on the Mountain. This is performed by “Rock the Church” at Resurrection Catholic School.
Go tell it anywhere! Jesus Christ is born.
We have this request from Joshua, to start the day–O Holy Night, sung by Emer Barry, backed up by Affiniti and the Palestrina Boys Choir.
Come on, now folks–hymns are part of our arsenal, with which we wage spiritual warfare against the evils of this age: they can save souls. Let’s muscle up on those Christmas Carol Contest entries.
I’ll show this bonus video if you guys promise to provide some entries to the Christmas Carol Contest tomorrow morning. Okay?
Look at this gorgeous snowscape. And watch the squirrel clear the snow off his favorite high-tension wire. I wish they’d stay off those wires, but they don’t care. Anyway, this is an industrious little fellow; and I would always rather watch someone else shovel snow than do it myself.
Before I sicken my soul with writing up some nooze, let me try to fortify it with this: Gloria in Excelsis Deo by St. Saens, sung by the Libera boys’ choir.
This is not an entry in the Christmas Carol Contest. I can’t enter my own contest. So far today, we have no entrys. C’mon, now, everybody!
We have a request from Joshua–One Quiet Moment, by GLAD. Sorry for the delay in posting it–I just had to get that book finished.
Come one, come all, to our first annual Christmas Carol Contest! A lot of you haven’t played yet–don’t worry about running out of Christmas hymns, that just ain’t gonna happen.
From Australian TV, a few years ago–Hugh Jackman, David Hobson, and Peter Cousen performing We Three Kings: and if this doesn’t pump you up for Christmas, I don’t know what will.
Hey! One thing we absolutely don’t have to worry about is running out of great Christmas music. And yet our first Christmas Carol Contest has slowed way down after just a week or so. The leading carol is still on top with just 25 views.
So many of you have never requested a hymn–so why not break the ice now?
How to win: If, say, on Dec. 14 you requested Gesu Bambino and it got 32 views that day, and no other hymn got that many on any other day, then you’d be the winner.
The prize is an autographed copy of one of my books. If you’ve already got them all, you can hold out for No. 11, The Temptation, which is just about ready to be published.
But we all win if we proclaim the birth of Jesus Christ Our Lord, and help this Christmas season draw the human heart to Him.