This is Silent Night in the original German–with Nana Mouskouri as an unexpected bonus.
If, like me, you had great-grandparents or grandparents born in Germany, this will bring tears to your eyes. Guaranteed.
Let us bathe our souls in the beauties of holiness.
Who doesn’t love Silent Night? Celtic Woman has an extraordinarily beautiful rendition of it, complete with a verse sung in Irish. If I can find one, I’d like to post a Silent Night/Stille Nacht sung in the original German.
But first I gotta fetch my car out of the repair shop–the starter conked out on me yesterday while I was at the mall, in the rain–and then go out and do half a zillion errands.
But listen to this Christmas hymn: and if it moves you to tears, let them come: there is no need to withhold tribute from the Child Jesus Christ, Our Savior.
Only God would have thought of sending His Son into the world by way of a manger.
This is one of my favorite Christmas songs. I don’t know why. There’s just something about it that moves me. But then just about everything about Christmas moves me.
There are many versions of this carol. I chose this one because I like the instrumentals.
This, by the way, is the holiday which we’re not supposed to mention, some jidrool might get offended. But then again–
Christmas, Christmas, Christmas! Jesus Christ is born!
Let’s start off the day with O, Little Town of Bethlehem, as sung by one of our national treasures, Nat King Cole. This is a reader request.
I have to get out of here in a hurry this morning to do some Christmas shopping. In the meantime, I’ll try to find something nice to post here this afternoon.
Yes, the real world news is uniformly depressing and bad. Anyone who expects anything good out of our current crop of misrulers is not in his right mind.
But Christmas is coming…
All right, a reader asked for this, so here it is–Bing Crosby and David Bowie performing together.
It should be borne in mind that Bing Crosby kept his voice right to the end. I was surprised to see how well he and David Bowie harmonized. Almost shocking to see that David Bowie actually understood and practiced music. Which goes to show you what 21st century music is like.
So, Ina, this one’s for you.
This is one of my favorites. Nick Bicat composed it in 1984 as title music for A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott. It’s not a hymn per se, nor any kind of traditional carol; but I like it.
If you haven’t seen this version of A Christmas Carol, I highly recommend it. Again, the business at hand is redemption by the grace of God, by means of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
That’s what Christmas is about.