Here’s another one I was in danger of forgetting, a real treasure of a hymn for Christmas-time: Masters in This Hall, performed by the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Thank you, Phoebe, for requesting it. I’d have hated to leave it out of our Christmas celebration.
No tree, no wreath, no lights–we’ve been too busy, too tired, to do any of those Christmassy things. I’m sort of a shell of myself, and Patty is worn out: for six weeks it was all on her (“Get to work, horse!”)–and now she has me to take care of.
No presents. Hard to buy presents when you’re stuck in the hospital.
And yet… dog my cats if it doesn’t feel like Christmas! Oh, the memories! And every carol stirs my soul.
We have to rest this afternoon. Have to! Perilously close to running on empty. So we’ll have a supper that can mostly cook itself, turn off the lights and love the snow, and watch a Christmas movie: George C. Scott’s Christmas Carol, I think.
And the day after Christmas is the anniversary of our first date, back in 1976.
Merry, happy, loving, remembering Christmas, everyone.
(It’s cold, it’s supposed to snow, and I would dearly love to go back to bed…)
No one requested this Christmas hymn in our carol contest–Masters in This Hall, by the Robert Shaw Chorale. Ah, well–we’ll run out of readers before we run out of hymns.
Requested by Phoebe (welcome back!)–How Unto Bethlehem This Pilgrimage of Kings, by the Robert Shaw Chorale.
I am reminded of a line of Chaucer: “Then longen folk to goon on pilgrimages…”
Let’s put our hearts into this Christmas!
Requested by Phoebe, another entry in our annual Christmas Carol Contest: How Unto Bethlehem, by the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Would you believe it? The lead in the contest has not changed hands since the day we started it. Unheard of!
Phoebe has nominated Masters in This Hall for our Christmas Carol Contest, and I probably should’ve held it over till tomorrow but–well, I didn’t want to wait. We don’t get to hear this one very often.
Sung by the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Our Christmas Carol Contest continues with The Holly and the Ivy by the Robert Shaw Chorale, requested by Phoebe.
Hello! If you haven’t entered yet, the contest is open to all, enter as many times as you like–and let’s just blow the cold and dark away with Christmas cheer! What could be better news than this? Jesus Christ our Messiah is come in the flesh!
Phoebe asked for this one–We Three Kings, by the Robert Shaw Chorale. She’s feeling a bit sick today: we pray for each other.
Remember, this is the last day of the Christmas Carol Contest. Let’s light up the scoreboard!
Requested by Phoebe, starting us off on Christmas Eve–the Robert Shaw Chorale, singing Christ Was Born on Christmas Day (am I starting to sound like Ed Sullivan?).
Oy, have I got work to do today! But there’ll be Christmas music playing the whole time I’m doing it.
Here’s another one I never heard before, another hymn for our Christmas Carol Contest: requested by Phoebe, How Unto Bethlehem (This Pilgrimage of Kings), by the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Remember–anyone can play, and you can play as often as you like.