Christmas Eve; or, Too Much Rum in the Eggnog

[hapaxnym]

Joyful all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With angelic hosts proclaim
Christ is born in Bethlehem!

Christmas carols (real Christmas carols,, that is, ones that attempt to celebrate or confront the Mystery of the Incarnation, not the dreadful secular "Santa Baby" or "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" types) seem to fall into two

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[indicolite]

The merriest Christmas to you!

[elliemurasaki]

This? This is the sort of thing I was expecting at Midnight Mass tonight. What I got was a very heavily implied "if you celebrate Hanukkah or Yule or Diwali or nothing at all, you are a lesser human being".

Contrast the Unitarian service, where we heard a great deal about Christmas 1914, aka the time the soldiers stopped the war. GEE I WONDER WHICH I PREFER.

[nenya_kanadka]

I often find that the Internets (often enough, Slacktivist/verse and/or fandom, though not exclusively) hit the buttons that people tell me church is supposed to hit. I'm sorry about your midnight mass, though.

PS: Icon love! I need to go find my copy of the Liberty/Justice icon, yes I do...

[little_carrot]

See, now I suggested Christmas 1914 to my UU minister as an alternative to Johnathan Toomey or The Gift of the Magi (which he alternates between) but he was less than enthused.

[nenya_kanadka]

And a most excellent Christmas to you as well, hapax! :D You should post on Christmas rum more often.

That part of John has always been probably my favouritest passage of the entire Bible. And, like, you, "comprehended it not" is a phrasing I like, and for similar reasons. The Shadows didn't get it.

<3