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A rose springs forth
The hymn "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" incorporates multiple symbolic meanings, including that of Jesus Christ, reflecting His divine love and the spiritual connection between believers and God.
God is not dead, nor doth He sleep
When conflict rages, and pain, grief and loneliness overwhelm us, where is the music of hope and peace? For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the answer to that question had everything to do with Christmas.
In the bleak midwinter of old, a stable-place sufficed for God’s Son
Christina Rossetti’s In the Bleak Midwinter is a classic English Christmas hymn.
Still, Still, Still
A beautiful symphonic performance of Still, Still, Still, followed by Bryn Terfel’s reading of the Nativity Story.
Can you hear the distant music?
This may be the most joyous and exuberant Christmas carol you have ever heard!
Did Mary know her baby boy would one day walk on water?
God knew that Mary was a woman of rare strength and obedience. She was the only human being to be with Jesus throughout his entire life — from his birth until his death. She gave birth to him as her baby and watched him die as her Savior.
Resolve for a New Year
“Some day we might look back on our lives and wonder what we could have been if we had believed in ourselves just a little more.”
A voice of mighty thunderings, saying “Alleluia”!
A beloved part of the Christmas tradition for many people is the performance of the Messiah, by Georg Friedrich Händel, with its resounding “Hallelujah Chorus”.
From angels bending near the earth
Here read all five verses of Edmund Sears classic Christmas poem.
Here is the truth in a little creed
A brief expression of his faith, from American poet Edwin Markham.
Being stuck in the airport - somewhere over the rainbow
A bit of musical fun to warm up some stranded travelers.
A vocal performance that touches the mystic chords of the heart
This unique interpretation of “What Child Is This” and “I Wonder While I Wander” is one of the moving Christmas performances I have heard.
Ring Out, Wild Bells
In these verses, Alfred Lord Tennyson yearns for a happier, nobler, more just and more charitable year, in which men turn from their evils and prepare for Christ’s thousand-year reign.
Love Came Down at Christmas
Christina Rossetti reflects upon the love of God in sending the world his Only Son.
Christmas Eve, 1893
Poetess Christina Rossetti invites nature to join her in rejoicing that Christ has come.
And now we only wait
By changing just one word, the carol “Joy to the World” becomes a millennial anthem.
A Christmas Canon
This unusual number from the rock opera, “The Christmas Attic”, alludes to the innocence and purity associated with the childhood wonder at Christmas season.
Do You Hear What I Hear?
“Do You Hear What I Hear” has the distinction of being probably the only Christmas song that was written in response to one of the most frightening crises in our nation’s history.