O Holy Night *
Il
Divo O Holy Night
Listen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IycjXdYurL0&feature=related
O holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth
Long lay the world in sin and error pining
Till he appeared
And the soul felt it’s worth
The thrill of hope
The weary world rejoices
For yonder brinks a new and glorious morn
Fall on your knees
O hear the angel voices
O night divine
O night when Christ was born
O night divine
O night, o night divine
O holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth
Long lay the world
In sin and error-pining
Till he appeared
And the soul felt it’s worth
The thrill of hope
The weary world rejoices
For yonder brinks
A new and glorious morn
Fall on your knees
O hear the angel voices
O night divine
O night when Christ was born
O night divine
O night, o night divine
http://www.religiousquotesblog.com/religious-quotes/o-holy-night-divine-david-phelp
Nativity Scene
RENI,
Guido
1630-1642
Museo
di San Martino
Naples,
Italy
Nativity Scene (detail)
The
time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still,
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of
course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is
darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is
still the time God chooses.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Camille
Scott, Linda Bradford
Linda
was our hostess for a delightful Painted Toe Society luncheon on Monday.
Nancy
Priest, Gudy Gaskill
Nancy
had planned to have a luncheon for six of us on Thursday,
but
our 20+ inches of snow cancelled it!
Perhaps
next week???
Is
Will Alexander (in Fairfax, Virginia) REALLY an angel???
<gr>
Woofie
and JAK with an early present.
Pastor
Dee at the Christmas Eve service.
Let
there be peace on earth,
And
let it begin with me.
Let
there be peace on earth
The
peace that was meant to be.
With
God as our father
We
are family.
Let
us walk with each other
In
perfect harmony.
written
by
Sy
Miller and Jill Jackson
http://www.links2love.com/christmas-let-there-be-peace-on-earth.htm
I heard the bells on Christmas Day;
their old familiar carols play,
and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on
earth, good-will to men!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
December 24,
2011 Christmas Day
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and
without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was
life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the
darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to
testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not
the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which
enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world
did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not
accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave
power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of
the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the
glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.
John 1:1-14
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.com
If you care to watch:
A Charlie Brown
Christmas
first
aired on CBS in 1965…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKk9rv2hUfA&feature=player_embedded
* O Holy
Night
In 1847, his parish priest asked French poet Placide
Cappeau de Roquemaure to compose a Christmas poem. He wrote “Cantique
de Noel” while contemplating what it would have been like to be present
at Christ’s birth and asked his
friend Adolphe-Charles Adam to
set it to music.
The song became an instant classic in France but was later denounced by the Church after Placide himself
denounced the Church and became a Socialist
Communist, and it was also learned Adam was a Jew.
A decade later American abolitionist and pastor John Sullivan Dwight learned of the
beautiful song and saw something more when translating it into English.
According to Ace Collins in his book,
Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs
of Christmas, Verse 3 “supported Dwight’s own view of slavery in the
South…. Dwight’s English translation of ‘O Holy Night’ quickly found favor in
America, especially in the North during the Civil War.”
Here is the literal English translation of Verse
3:
The Redeemer has overcome every obstacle:
The Earth is free, and Heaven is open.
He sees a brother where there was only a slave,
Love unites those that iron had chained.
Who will tell Him of our gratitude,
For all of us He is born, He suffers and dies.
And here was Dwight’s translation of Verse 3:
Truly He taught us to love one another;
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother;
And in His name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
Let all within us praise His holy name.
http://www.jillstanek.com/2011/12/stanek-sunday-quote-the-abolitionist-history-behind-o-holy-night/
December 24 (Christmas Eve)
Isaiah 9:2-7
Psalm 96:1-13
Titus 2:11-14
Luke 2:1-14
(15-20)
December 25 (Nativity of Jesus Christ/Christmas Day)
At Dawn:
Isaiah 62:6-12
Psalm 97:1-12
Titus 3:4-7
Luke 2:(1-7)
8-20
Christmas Day:
Isaiah 52:7-10
Psalm 98:1-9
Hebrews 1:1-4
(5-12)
John 1:1-14
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