Luke 2: 6) While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7) and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Christmas Music, Part 24 – O Holy Night
“O Holy Night” (“Cantique de Noël”) is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem “Minuit, chrétiens” (Midnight, Christians) by Placide Cappeau (1808–1877).
Cappeau, a wine merchant and poet, had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem. Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight, editor of Dwight’s Journal of Music, created a singing edition based on Cappeau’s French text in 1855.
In both the French original and in the two familiar English versions of the carol, the text reflects on the birth of Jesus and of mankind’s redemption.
O Holy Night sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Merry Christmas!
May the peace and hope of Christ’s birth be with you now and in the days ahead…
Dick Van Dyke reads “Christmas Is a Time of Joy”
On Christmas Eve, a young American sailor brightens the mood in a small, dismal cafe in Nice, France.
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