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Saturday, December 24, 2016
#411, in which the weary world rejoices
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As I mentioned yesterday, my favorite Christmas song is "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," but "O Holy Night" felt like the mos...
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Friday, December 23, 2016
#410, in which Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel
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Full disclosure: "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" is without reservation my favorite Christmas song. Ordinarily I'd save that for la...
Thursday, December 22, 2016
#409, in which one can hear the falling snow
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"Still, Still, Still" is originally an Austrian lullaby. A handful of other Christmas songs are lullabies (" Away in a Manger...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
#408, in which we are glad to tell of the gifts we gave Emmanuel
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"The Friendly Beasts" is a soft, gentle, simple song. We sing about a lot of different aspects of the Nativity in our carols, but ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
#407, in which shepherds guard and angels sing
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We're talking about "What Child is This?" today. I've always liked this one, and I'm not sure I can really place why. ...
Monday, December 19, 2016
#406, in which with Mary we behold it
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"Es ist ein Ros entsprungen" is the name of today's song, more commonly known in English as "Lo, How a Rose E'er Bloo...
Sunday, December 18, 2016
#405, in which woe is me, poor child, for thee
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I've always liked "Coventry Carol," and I was already planning on writing about it when someone suggested I wrote about the so...
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