Favorite Christmas Carol

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Feanaro_s_Wife said:
**That is so sad for you. I assume there is no way he can come see you?

Lyrics are good but I just don’t like mariah 🤷**:o
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That’s okay, I don’t like Elvis. 😃 🤷 (Actually, I don’t like Mariah much either, but I like that song.)

I suppose he could come out here for Christmas, but there isn’t much point. He couldn’t stay with me (it’d be too tempting, and even if he could my place is too small), I don’t have time off, and he has his two daughters in the Philippines who really deserve to have their Papa home for Christmas after being away from home the last two Christmases.

I’ll try to see if I can get a day or two off in January - there’s a four-day weekend for Lunar New Year, so if I can get the Saturday off I could leave on Friday night and get back Wednesday afternoon before work. That’s only two months from now.
 
I seem to recall Little Drummer Boy was introduced when I was a kid, the late 50’s or maybe early '60’s.
Do You Hear What I Hear came out at about the same time.
 
shannyk said:
Oh come oh come Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you oh Israel

If anything makes me ‘get’ Christmas, it’s that song.
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Technically that is an Advent song, not Christmas :D.

“Ave Maria” is not technically a Christmas song either, it is a beautiful rendition of the Hail Mary in Latin! Sung at many a Catholic Wedding and Funeral! I always find it ironic when some non-Catholic likes it to the exclusion of some other “songs”.

Brenda V.
 
Brenda_V said:
Technically that is an Advent song, not Christmas :D.

So for converts like me, what are some other Advent songs? And what is the name of that one?:o

“Ave Maria” is not technically a Christmas song either, it is a beautiful rendition of the Hail Mary in Latin! Sung at many a Catholic Wedding and Funeral! I always find it ironic when some non-Catholic likes it to the exclusion of some other “songs”.

And to go off topic briefly:p, Ave Maria was not allowed at our Church for weddings. I wasn’t anywhere near to being Catholic then and pretty much everything confused me, but now this really stands out…I wonder why?

Brenda V.
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So for converts like me, what are some other Advent songs? And what is the name of that one?:o
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Hmm, I’d have to get back to you on the Advent songs.

The song in question is “O Come Emmanuel” If you can find it on-line listen to the words, they are talking about the coming of the Savior which is what Advent is all about, it is the preparing of ourselves and the looking forward to the Emmanuel, our Savior coming.

As for why your Church doesn’t allow Ave Maria at Weddings is beyond me because it is the Hail Mary in Latin - there are different renditions but everyone usually thinks of the one that Bing Crosby sang. My friend who got married about three-four summers ago had that song at her Wedding sung by her soon to be MIL and we are in a very orthodox Parish, nothing is done there that is not right!

Brenda V.

PS try here for a little more info. domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19971201/ARTICLES/XMSSONGS.HTM

Catherine has a whole bunch of other good stuff for all the new Catholics starting families and all us Cradle Catholics too!
 
You left out an option -

“All of the above, plus soooooooooo many more!” 😉

I voted O Holy Night - but I’ve yet to come across a Christmas song I didn’t adore.
 
So for converts like me, what are some other Advent songs? And what is the name of that one?
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“O Come O Come, Emmanuel” is the name of the song in question. It’s one of my all-time favorite hymns, and is based off of the traditional “O Antiphons”, part of Vespers (Liturgy of the Hours) from December 17-23. Each verse of the song corresponds to one night’s Vespers chant.

As for other Advent songs: our parish always uses “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” for Gaudete Sunday (Third Sunday of Advent, aka “pink candle” Sunday). Others are “O Come, Divine Messiah”, “The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns”, “Awake, Awake, and Greet the New Morn”, “Comfort, Comfort O My People”, “Creator of the Stars of Night”, “Prepare the Way of the Lord”, “On Jordan’s Bank”. We usually use each of these at least once during Advent at my parish.
 
“Little Drummer Boy”, “Adeste Fidelis”, “O Holy Night”, so many!

For Advent: “People of East” and “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”.

Funny story about Adeste Fidelis: I’m part of an interdenominational Christian group on campus. I’m probably the only Catholic girl, though we’ve got quite a few Catholic guys. Well, one of these guys and I were listening to the P&W band practice “O Come All Ye Faithful” and we started singing along. Well, then he looked at me and said, “We’re Catholic, we should sing it in Latin!” So, during the actual service, at the refrain, we just looked at each other and started singing, “Venite, Adoremus!” Then, we just kept switching from Latin to English, English to Latin. I think we managed to confuse everyone in the row in front of us…Because there was no Latin on the screen, yet we’re singing as loud as we can in Latin!

So now, every time I hear that song, I start laughing and my friends who know the story become highly amused all of a sudden.
 
Adeste Fidelis is my favorite on the list.

But my all time favorite is not listed: Ideo, aka Personent Hodie.

Also, “Lo, how a rose.” I have sung that so many times… love it.

Last but not least, this. Another good Advent song! I couldn’t find a midi of it.
  1. Gabriel of high degree,
    He came down from the Trinity
    From Nazareth to Galilee,
    Nova, nova, Ave fit ex Eva.
  2. He met a maiden in a place;
    He kneelëd down afore her face;
    He said: “Hail, Mary, full of grace!”
    Nova, nova, Ave fit ex Eva.
  3. When the maiden saw all this,
    She was sore abashed, ywis,
    Lest that she had done amiss.
    Nova, nova, Ave fit ex Eva.
  4. Then said the angel: “Dread not you,
    Ye shall conceive in all virtue
    A child whose name shall be Jesu.”
    Nova, nova, Ave fit ex Eva.
  5. Then said the maid: “How may this be,
    Godës Son to be born of me?
    I know not of man’s carnality.”
    Nova, nova, Ave fit ex Eva.
  6. Then said the angel anon right:
    “The Holy Ghost is on thee alight;
    There is no thing unpossible to God Almight.”
    Nova, nova, Ave fit ex Eva.
  7. Then said the angel anon:
    “It is not fully six months agone,
    Since Saint Elizabeth conceived Saint John.”
    Nova, nova, Ave fit ex Eva.
  8. Then said the maid anon quickly:
    "I am Godës own truly,
    Ecce ancilla Domini."
    Nova, nova, Ave fit ex Eva.
And then there’s the Hallelujah Chorus…

God bless us all,

Ruthie
 
For me it’s “O Holy Night” but with a twist – it has to be in the original French. The “Minuit, Chrétiens” for me is the carol of my childhood Midnight Masses and will always be the one that transports me back to a stone village church in a small community in New Brunswick, Canada.

Now, had I been given free rein to pick any carol, it still would be a French one but the one the choir at that church sang at the Offertory the first time I ever attended Midnight Mass: “Dans le silence de la nuit”

In Latin, give me “Gaudete!”

I’m trying to post YouTube links but the site is being particularly stubborn this a.m.
 
Phemie said:
For me it’s “O Holy Night” but with a twist – it has to be in the original French. The “Minuit, Chrétiens” for me is the carol of my childhood Midnight Masses and will always be the one that transports me back to a stone village church in a small community in New Brunswick, Canada.

Now, had I been given free rein to pick any carol, it still would be a French one but the one the choir at that church sang at the Offertory the first time I ever attended Midnight Mass: “Dans le silence de la nuit”

In Latin, give me “Gaudete!”

I’m trying to post YouTube links but the site is being particularly stubborn this a.m.
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Oooh… when you have the chance, give us those links, please! I’d love to hear them.
 
I love Christmas music and my favorite has always been “Oh Holy Night”! 🙂
 
There is an instrumental song named “I saw Three Ships” or Three Ships. It is sooooooooooooo beautiful, the best version I have ever heard is by a symphony orchestra. Have any of you heard of it?
 
I don’t know the words, but they do exist. Street carolers sing it in “A Christmas Carol” (the one with George C. Scott)
 
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