#christmas hymn

[ketchuplaser]

O Come, All Ye Faithful - The Petersens (LIVE)

[gospelhotspot]

[Music + Video] Christ Is Born - Testimony Jaga

Multi-award-winning Gospel minister and Energetic Fuji-pop artiste, Testimony Jaga spreads Christmas joy with the release of his new single “Christ Is Born,” available now on all major music streaming platforms. The groovy song celebrates the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, the reason for the season. Accompanied by a beautiful performance video, “Christ is Born” is a delightful reminder of the…

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[revivalrequiem]

# winter/snowflake inspired ✮

the old ones were kinda ugly. free to use, credit if reposting and using for edits requests.

[ironyscleverer]

5 Christmas/Yule/Winter Albums for Your Enjoyment:

the vibes are a spooky folkloric midwinter somewhere down the centuries in Darkest Europe (mostly England).

If on a Winter’s Night, by Sting

Ancient Winter, by Leah

The Castle of the Holly King: Secular Songs for the Yuletide by Shira Kammen

The Holly King, by MaddRegaeles Muse

A Feast of Songs: Holiday Music from the Middle Ages, by Barry and Beth Hall

Plus my own personal playlist featuring songs from all of these albums and more.

Happy listening!!!

[halipula-aika]

Okay I've seen enough "Christmas should include more existential dread" type posts on my dash to physically need to talk about Heinillä härkien kaukalon and why it is the best hymn ever if you want to feel sad about baby Jesus.

So this epitome of depressing Finnish holiday songs isn't actually Finnish in origin; it's a translation of Entre le bœuf et l’âne gris, a French song from the 16th century. It was adapted into Finnish in 1926. I say adapted instead of translated here, because the Finnish version has an EXTREMELY DIFFERENT vibe.

The first verses are very similar in both French and Finnish. Like, here's the French translated literally:

Between the ox and the grey donkey / Sleeps, sleeps, sleeps the little son

A thousand divine angels, a thousand seraphim / Fly around this great God of love.

And here's the Finnish:

On the hay, in the bulls' trough / Sleeps an innocent Child. The path of a flock of angels / Soon leads to Him / To marvel at the greatest Love

The next two verses are the same shit in both languages. There's "in the arms of Mary/the mother", and then there's "between roses and lillies". The metaphor used for Jesus changes a bit so it rhymes with the verse, and the thousand angels/great love part is always repeated.

And then. The Finnish translation. Pulls the fucking rug from under you.

The French version has two more verses; you've got "Amidst the gentle shepherds / Sleeps, sleeps Jesus who smiles" and "On this beautiful, so solemn day / Sleeps, sleeps, sleeps Emmanuel". Okay, cool, it's five verses of baby jesus. Great.

The Finnish adaptation only has four verses. And I'd like you to imagine what you have read so far with me. Every time I've heard this hymn, it's sung as almost a lullaby. It's about a baby sleeping in his various aspects: an innocent child, the son of God, the Lord of people. Singing those verses as a fragile lullaby makes sense.

And then in the fourth verse, the choir goes all out, the organist gets to flex how loud they can play, and the church echoes as the last verse is sung:

On the cross beside a criminal / Sleeps the purest sacrifice

The path of a flock of angels / Soon leads to Him / To marvel at the greatest Love

Additional fun facts about the Finnish language: the words for "sacrifice" and "victim" are the same, so you could read this as "the purest sacrifice" or "the cleanest victim".

Merry Christmas!

[thyateira]

Let all mortal flesh keep silence, And with fear and trembling stand; Ponder nothing earthly-minded, For with blessing in His hand, Christ our God to earth descendeth, Our full homage to demand.

Verse 1 of Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence by Gerard Moultrie, based on an earlier Syriac hymn.

[edandstede]

don’t think i’ve ever rooted for a straight ship the way i am for audrey and siegfried in acgas 😭

[44prop]

i’ve tried hard to forget my convent school trauma over the last few years but unfortunately my funniest christmas memory will always be when we had to do a christmas talent show in year 10 where we had to choreograph a christmas hymn or song (bearing in mind our teachers there were nuns and priests) to perform to everyone . and a girl in my form got on stage, rolled her skirt up and did a full solo performance of santa baby in the middle of everyone else’s away in a manger routines

[ketchuplaser]

O Holy Night by Martina McBride (LyricVideo)

[gospelhotspot]

Born In A Manger - Unify World x King Uid Ft. Blessing Banwo

Gospel music minister, King UID, and his music empire Unify World, blesses us with a fresh Christmas sound titled ‘Born In A Manger‘, featuring Blessing Banwo. Born In A Manger is a song that ushers in the season of Christmas and the good tidings it comes with. The song acknowledges the humble introduction of our Messiah into the world in a lowly state. The song is coming off the newly released…

[anastpaul]

(via Our Morning Offering – 22 December – Saviour of the Nations, Come! – AnaStpaul)

[brown-little-robin]

made two moths today and named them Magnum and Opus. this is what life's all about

[apenitentialprayer]

I know Episcopalians have an amazing hymnbook and don't fix what's broken or whatever, but Karliene Reynolds released a sung version of Christina Rossetti's In The Bleak Midwinter, and it's pretty great. And Christina Rossetti is a saint in your church, guys.

[hohohozier]

I’ve kept this thought to myself for years but I believe now is the time to manifest it: Hozier Christmas/Yule album