In many Christian Churches, it is traditional to attend services on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, we only have a worship service on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day if either day happens to fall on a Sunday, and then the services are limited to our Sacrament Meeting, with no Sunday School, Primary (for children) Relief Society (the women's auxiliary) Young Women (for the youth) or Priesthood (for the men) meetings being held. We do have other Christmas related activities or concerts or dinners or other events during the Christmas season, depending on what is planned in each individual area.
In our ward congregation this morning we had a special Sacrament Meeting that featured several different congregational hymns and other special musical numbers. We don't currently have an official choir, but I really did enjoy today's meeting, listening to the wonderful musical numbers performed by friends and neighbors. Here are the songs that were included in today's program (links are not to our program but to videos of the songs we enjoyed, performed by others.)
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
DD1 and DD2 and I had the blessing of being able to attend the Christmas Concert of The Tabernacle Choir on Temple Square earlier this month featuring guest artists Stephanie Block and Sebastian Arcelus. It was beautiful as usual, and helped to put us into the Christmas Spirit. Last weekend our coungregation had our annual Christmas dinner and the local high school madigral group came and performed. Even the wiggly young children were enthralled by their performacne. As per tradition, we also plan to spend some time as a family singing some of our favorite Christmas Carols as part of our Christmas Eve celebration here at home. It doesn't really matter the venue, nor the performer. Christmas music is always magical to me.
What Christmas Music traditions do you have? What are your favorite Christmas songs?
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