On Christmas Eve in 1818
a blizzard stranded the tiny village of Ogledorf,
nestled in the Austrian mountains.
That same day the people of St. Nicholas’ church found their organ broken
so the priest and organist began composing a song that could be sung without
an organ, yet beautiful enough to express their Christmas joy. Continue reading “the lion and the lamb”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was filled with sorrow at the tragic death of his wife in a fire in 1861. The Civil War broke out the same year, and it seemed this was an additional punishment. Two years later, Longfellow was again saddened to learn that his own son had been seriously wounded in the Army of the Potomac.
The Advent Season always fills me with great “Wonder.”
I wonder what Mary must have been feeling waiting for the arrival of her child conceived by the Holy Spirit.
I wonder how Joseph carried the weight of responsibility he’d been given.
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