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.