This morning at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, North Adelaide we sang many carols and reflected on Bethlehem, the house of bread and the one who was born to be bread and life for the world. During the service we heard ‘O Holy Night’. As wikipedia tells us, “O Holy Night” (“Cantique de Noël”) is a …
This is not really a Christmas carol or song, but it is my favourite of all those songs associated with this season. It is sourced from a Latin text called “Veni, veni, Emmanuel” which accounts for a couple of different translations. Hymns and Carols of Christmas have a couple, here and here. I’m more familiar …
An older Christmas song this week. I think I first learned the Sussex Carol back when we lived in Mordialloc and attended Aspendale Presbyterian on many Sunday nights. It was originally known as ‘Christmas Night’ and is now more popularly known as ‘On Christmas Night All Christians Sing’. Jesus as Saviour is front and centre …
This is very, very cool. On Amazon Andrew Peterson describes ‘Behold The Lamb Of God’ in the following terms: ‘What I wrote is a concert that tells a story. There’s no speaking–only songs, some of which are intimate, some epic, some humorous, all with a purpose, which is to convey the true tall tale of …
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