This is one of my favorite songs – it just happens to be suitable for Christmas. Like the bells in this song, I, too, am calling the Light.
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Monday Music Moment – Bells Are Ringing
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! My heart is full – I held the baby in the manger.
I recalled Pope Benedict’s XVI homily in
which he said:
“God’s sign is simplicity. God’s sign is the baby. God’s sign is that he makes himself small for us… God made himself small so that we could understand him, welcome him, and love him.”
“Let us ask the Lord to let us look upon him with that same love with which Mary saw him.”
~Pope Benedict XVI, Midnight Mass Christmas Homily, 2006
Dolly,
A full heart at Christmas – who could ask for more?
Paul
Amen! And blessings of Christmas to all!
Fran,
Christmas blessings to you and yours. I hope you get the chance to get some well-deserved rest.
Paul
This is such a beautiful song that helps us be aware of those that are way less fortunate than the majority of us, especially during this Season of joy, wonder glad tidings and camaraderie. As we celebrate this special day of Christ’s birth along with the holiday week that follows, let us all look for ways that we may individually work to help those in need.
Tim,
As you say, we can never go wrong when our hearts go out to others.
Merry Christmas,
Paul
Beautiful and challenging to each of us as Tim has mentioned.
Lynda,
If anyone is up to the challenge – you are!
Have a joyous Christmas,
Paul
Thank you for this challenging, yet hopeful, reflection. Hopeful, because we know the Light is coming and there are people all over the world praying and waiting. Merry Christmas to all and thank you Father Paul for the lovely calendar!
Chris,
And this year, more than in the past, I long for the Light to come.
Paul
Beautiful. I am a big fan of MCC. Merry Christmas to all at Loyola Press and thank you for the calendar which will hang in my little corner of inspiration. May the love that God generously gave us all those many years ago manifest in the way we live our lives. There will be special prayers for all of the PFO family tonight. And I wanted to share this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-kHleNYIDc
Annette,
Apart from “Grow Old With Me,” I don’t really know any other song by MCC, as you call her. I shall have to go exploring on YouTube.
Paul
Ask not for whom the bell tolls………:)
Emma,
A Hemingway reference? Way to go!
Paul
Thank you. I am grateful this Christmas for the chance to celebrate with all the people I love most. I appreciate the call to remember and pray for all that will not be able to celebrate at all.
May you all experience joy in abundance tomorrow. Merry Christmas, and God Bless us, everyone!
Denise,
God has already blessed us in our Our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ.
Merry Christmas,
Paul
Amen!
Christmas Blessings.
This song is so beautiful and helped me get centred.
Carol,
I am so glad. I hope you can stay centered throughout Christmas.
Paul