In the Bleak Midwinter
Articles, Carols of Comfort & Joy
In a poll of 51 choral experts and directors in the world, today’s Carol of Comfort & Joy, “In the Bleak Midwinter” was voted the best Christmas Carol. Can ... Read more
Good King Wenceslas
Articles, Carols of Comfort & Joy
Are you traveling to see family or friends for Christmas? How about traveling to a soup kitchen or a shelter to give back this holiday? That’s what Good King ... Read more
We Three Kings
Articles, Carols of Comfort & Joy
Did you know? Most Christmas carols, as you might have noticed, start out as poems and later are adapted to music. That makes Episcopal clergyman John Henry Hopkins Jr., ... Read more
O Holy Night
Articles, Carols of Comfort & Joy
“O Holy Night” is one of the Christmas carols that you may only know by tune and not by lyric. It was penned in French, originally, and then translated ... Read more
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Articles, Carols of Comfort & Joy
Did you like learning a little Latin yesterday? Here comes some more with today’s Carol of Comfort and Joy. “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”, when it was first found ... Read more
O Come, all ye Faithful
Articles, Carols of Comfort & Joy
Today’s Carol of Comfort & Joy has at least five different lyricists who’ve been given credit: John IV, King of Portugal, two composers, a house of Cistercian monks, and ... Read more
Jolly Old St. Nicholas
Articles, Carols of Comfort & Joy
“Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, lean your ear this way…” Boy, I bet we all wished as kids that Saint Nicholas would just tell us what we were getting for ... Read more
Hark, the herald angels sing
Articles, Carols of Comfort & Joy
Today’s Carol of Comfort & Joy is one whose tune you might know from the end of “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” As the kids all stand around the scraggly ... Read more
Angels we have heard on high
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I bet you look forward to singing “Angels we have heard on high” every year at Christmas Mass. It’s a great challenge for the whole family to get all ... Read more
God rest you merry, Gentlemen
Articles, Carols of Comfort & Joy
Welcome to our first Carol of Comfort & Joy! You may recognize exactly where this series got its name in today’s carol, sung by the Northridge Preparatory School’s choir: ... Read more