Oh come all ye faithful

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I have on my wrist, two bands of glowy plastic, y'know those tubes which you crack and then the liquid inside starts glowing. While the notice outside our church says "Carols by Candlelight", the projector says "Carols by Glowlight 2005". Yep, they were giving these glow-things out, for people to wave instead of candles. Sensible of them, I think, and more fun, cuz they're in different colours.
I sang my little heart out. And my voice too, it feels croaky now. I'm out of practice.

Oh come let us adore him
Oh come let us adore him
Oh come let us adore him
Christ the Lord!

Yahoo!

Comments

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

Hee. The glow sticks sound like fun. Glad you enjoyed it. :)

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid glow sticks just make me think of the non-reusable, probably toxic contents...

But we have similar feelings with regard to carols!

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I'm afraid glow sticks just make me think of the non-reusable, probably toxic contents...

Ouch.

But we have similar feelings with regard to carols!
8-)

I hate it when they change the words, like when they remove all the non-inclusive language and all the "thee"s and "ye"s; oddly enough, while my church has a tendancy to do that (sometimes so badly that the sense of the verses is completely changed), this time they kept most of the ye's and thee's but still changed some of the other things. "Good Christians all rejoice" rather than "Good Christian men rejoice"... which I suppose could be confusing the original way and doesn't really change the sense of the verse. Another one that was changed was "Here in David's town this day, is born of David's line..." to "Here in Bethlehem today..." which again doesn't change the sense of the verse, but I don't see why they had to change it at all, I like the poetry of the orignal version better.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I hate it when they change the words, like when they remove all the non-inclusive language and all the "thee"s and "ye"s; as someone who determinedly recites the old Lord's Prayer when all around me are using the new one, I'm with you...

But I'm afraid my "traditional!!!" streak is even tougher. Carols By are supposed to be by Candlelight (they are also supposed to be local and small-scale, not that ghastly media-hyped travesty one gets inflicted with on TV every year), so I'd probably have spent the night glaring at the glowy things as if they were alien slugs... (stuffy? stick-in-the-sentimental-mud? moi???)

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Well, at least it was local and small-scale...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I like inclusive language. It makes little girls feel they matter too; there's going to be enough other thing to assault their self-esteem. And given how many people I've met who think the only way one can address God is in archaic English because it's so formal and respectful (when 'thee' and 'thou' were actually for friends and family and those very close to you) I'm happy to see it go now it's lost that warm feel the German 'du' still has. I don't see that modern language and poetry have to be exclusive; compare the lovely New Jerusalem to the Good News (a ghastly piece of work devoid of any beauty).

I think the glow-sticks would have looked lovely. :-D

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And given how many people I've met who think the only way one can address God is in archaic English because it's so formal and respectful (when 'thee' and 'thou' were actually for friends and family and those very close to you) I'm happy to see it go now it's lost that warm feel the German 'du' still has.

Since I was kind of brought up on The Lord of the Rings, I don't find archaic English alienating, but I certainly agree with you on the distaste for feeling one can only address God with 'thee' and 'thou' -- heck, Jesus said to call him "Daddy" (it gets translated as 'father' in the Lord's Prayer, but apparently it's more informal than that) then to put all those 'thee' and 'thou' to add more distance... I'm kind of schizophrenic that way -- in public prayers I say 'Dear Lord' and in private I say 'Papa'.

I don't see that modern language and poetry have to be exclusive; compare the lovely New Jerusalem to the Good News (a ghastly piece of work devoid of any beauty).

I really must check out the New King James...

[(Anonymous)]

That's my favorite carol--I can sing it all year round! :)

[kerravonsen]

Sing choirs of angels
Sing in exhaltation
Sing all ye citizens of heaven above
Glory to God
In the Highest..

I don't really have a single favourite carol, but this would be one of them. It was the last one of the evening.

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