Top Nine Reasons for Christmas "Lessons & Carols"
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In years past I have written about the importance of keeping Christmas in Christianity. For those who don’t aren’t interested in reading the full article at The Federalist, I have distilled below the Top Nine Reasons for celebrating a “Lessons & Carols” service this holiday season, in countdown style à la Letterman.
9. Lessons & Carols reminds us that the story of Jesus is at the center of the Bible.
8. Because due to COVID the public can’t attend Lessons & Carols at Kings College, Cambridge.
7. You can’t understand the Christmas story apart from the Old Testament prophecies of Christ.
6. Where else do you get to sing the fourth stanza of “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”:
Come, Desire of nations, come,
fix in us Thy humble home;
Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring Seed,
bruise in us the serpent’s head.
Now display Thy saving power,
ruined nature now restore;
Now in mystic union join
Thine to ours, and ours to Thine.
5. The best carols remind us that Jesus was born to die:
Good Christian, fear; for sinners here
the silent Word is pleading.
Nails, spear, shall pierce him through;
the cross be borne for me, for you;
hail, hail the Word made flesh,
the babe, the son of Mary.
4. To remind romantics and moralists that Christmas is not about our charity, but God’s work of salvation
3. Eggnog.
(Not technically a part of the Lessons & Carols liturgy.)
2. To brush up on your Latin by singing “Adeste, Fideles.”
And, the Number 1 reason to celebrate “Lessons & Carols” this Christmas:
1. To annoy the puritans among us.
(I’m joking… some of my best friends are puritans.)