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The Ninth Carol of Christmas

And here we are on Christmas Eve. Time does pass us by so quickly. You all probably noticed how I harped on one theme and exactly one throughout this entire week and a half. That of the absolute Greatness of God in coming down to become flesh for us. I'm hoping that writing about it so many

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The Eight Carol of Christmas

By Christianna Hellwig with 0 Comments

It was once humorously pointed out by a friend of mine just how many of the English carols speak about snow. As one person on a youtube comment feed put it, English carols talk about Snow, inventories of the animals in the stable, snow, and more snow. In a sense this is true and the ironic thing

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The Seventh Carol of Christmas

By Christianna Hellwig with 0 Comments

We've all heard the popular question, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it still make noise?" Many and varied are the answers given, both lighthearted and scientific, and anyone's intuition can answer the question simply, however, one child's answer has always been my favorite. In a nature

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The Sixth Carol of Christmas

By Christianna Hellwig with 0 Comments

I must apologize, my friends for missing the last three days. Things got rather busy. Anyhow, at first I was worried...how would I make up the extra days. Then this afternoon I realized something....the world won't come to the end if there are only nine carols of Christmas this year, and my dear readers will give me

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The Fifth Carol of Christmas

By Christianna Hellwig with 0 Comments

Heinrich Suese, the supposed author of In Dulci Jubilo, according to foklore is said to have heard angels singing the words and "joined them in a dance of worship." Whether or not this is actually the case, I am in no position to speculate, however, when sung by a choir the song really does sound like it

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The Fourth Carol of Christmas

By Christianna Hellwig with 0 Comments

I think the most beloved Christmas carols of today were either written in English or translated into it very quickly. Today I wish to introduce you all to one which is best sung in its original tongue, Spanish. In fact I don't believe that a translation of Riu Riu Chiu has ever been attempted.

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The Third Carol of Christmas

By Christianna Hellwig with 2 Comments

They say the Irish saved civilization. Today they saved my blog. The wexford carol is a beautiful old Irish song whose tune probably originated in the late 1700's though the words probably go even further about two-hundred years. As I listened to this haunting carol, I was struck by the depth of the words and how more

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The Second Carol of Christmas

By Christianna Hellwig with 0 Comments

His parents died oversees serving as missionaries when he was six, he was raised by the Moravians and ended up running a radical newspaper which propagated ideas as shocking as abolition! However, on Christmas Eve of 1816 something strikingly different appeared in the radical pages of the Sheffield Iris it was a Christmas poem which began with

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The First Carol of Christmas

By Christianna Hellwig with 1 Comments

Welcome, good people, to the glorious advent season. Normally I save songs such as the one I intend to reintroduce for further along in the month. Usually on Christmas or Christmas Eve, however, I thought this year I'd jostle it up. It all started this morning as I was driving to a lesson. I turned

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Friends, Rivals, Creative ones - Lend Me Your Ears!

By Christianna Hellwig with 0 Comments

Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the intriguing world of Barbershop. Remember how last post I mentioned not one but two things which had pushed me to stop stalling in the blogging world? One of those things was barbershop music. As I explored the genre this summer I kept thinking how I must share this

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