I don’t know why I selected this for today’s hymn. Robbie has taken a turn for the worse. It’s as if I can’t help thinking, “If we can only make it to Christmas–!”
Well, here it is: On This Day, Earth Shall Ring, sung by the Kings College Choir, Cambridge.
Requested by Thewhiterabbit: My Song Is Love Unknown, sung by the choir at Kings College, Cambridge. We’re open all day for hymn requests, folks: feel free to make one anytime.
Requested by Thewhiterabbit: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, by Isaac Watts, sung by the choir at Kings College, Cambridge. I hear it now and then from the bells of St. Francis Cathedral, across the street from me.
Requested by my wife, so here goes–Ding-Dong Gloria on High, sung by the Kings College Choir.
This is so very beautiful! And I can’t help a silent cry–well, all right, not so silent: “You traded this for atheism? Even the San Francisco Giants make better trades than that!”
Speaking for myself, I don’t think we’ve needed Christmas more than we need it this year.
Requested by Phoebe, Away in a Manger, sung by Kings College Choir: this is the melody they sing it to in Britain. Never fails to bring a tear to my eye.
Requested by SlimJim, Away in a Manger–and I hope he doesn’t mind that this time I opted for the British melody that goes with that carol. There’s an American melody, too, and they’re equally lovely. Sung by the Kings College Choir… in England.
Our month-long Christmas party rolls on, and I’m a little late with this one, but let’s have it anyway–
Requested by Erlene: Hark the Herald Angels Sing, by the Kings College Choir at Cambridge…
As for our carol contest, the two carols with 18 views each are still tied for the lead.
No, it’s not too early for a Christmas hymn! In fact, if you’ve read the previous post and seen that appalling video, there couldn’t be a better time for this–O Come, All Ye Faithful by the Kings College Choir at Cambridge University. And if I were to try to speak out loud just now, I’d burst into tears.
No, the devils haven’t won! Yes, they’re running wild just now, unrestrained in their wickedness, preying on the people they ought to protect: but Jesus Christ has come into the world, and will come again; and He will save us. In fact He’s here already, never farther than a prayer away.
It’s never too early for that.
This is a French traditional Christmas/New Year’s carol from the 15th century, sung byt the Kings College Choir at Cambridge–Noel Nouvelet. I’m sure I’ve never heard it before, yet it sounds faintly familiar.