No carol contest entries, no hymn requests, to start the day. But we do have a brand-new video from our friends and esteemed colleagues, Joshua and Jeremy–Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.
And Patty has gotten my stats page to work again, so let’s build up some stats!
Your Favorite Hymns continues with this one by Fernando Ortega, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.
I’ve got a list of hymn requests now; please feel free to add to it.
Joshua found this for us–Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, sung by Fernando Ortega. The words come from an ancient Greek liturgy; the melody, from an ancient French carol.
Requested by Jan–Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, sung by the choir at Manchester Cathedral, in England: traditional French melody, from Picardy (just across the Channel).
Come one, come all, to our first Christmas Carol Contest! Don’t rely on just a few readers to do all the work.
I don’t know. Maybe I should offer a cooler prize, instead of an autographed copy of one of my books.
Anyhow, the business at hand is to proclaim the birth of Jesus Christ as the focal point of human history, as something that really happened, Word of God made flesh, Holiness born as one of us–and in a stable, no less! But to the King of Kings the most opulent palace in the world would fall as far short of His glory as any stable would. And it’d be a lot less cozier.