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Dear Journal,
This is a very interesting article about how "Silent Night" came to be.
It was December 23, 1818 in a tiny mountain village in Austria. The night was cold and clear and a heavenly canopy of stars stretched over a peaceful earth as far as the eye could see.
Father Joseph Mohr, a young parish priest, had just administered the last rights to a dying woman. Walking thoughtfully homeward, he looked down and the twinkling lights of the village and the bright stars above. A soul was about to depart from this world, to sleep forever in heavenly peace. Tomorrow at midnight the village and the Christian world would reverently observe the greatest birth- the nativity that took place that holy night so long ago.
How sad, the young priest thought, that the church organ was broken and the musical program for the holiday services had been canceled. Franz Gruber the organist had suggested they find a simple melody that could be sung, and he would compose the music. Give him the words? and there would be music.
As he thought of birth and life and death and looked down upon the sleepy, starlit village below, Father Mohr found these words. They sing the praises of the Holy Infant born to the world, and we wonder if they do not also ask the departed soul ?rest in peace.?
Thus came the famous ?Silent Night, Holy Nigh.? Franz Gruber, true to his word, put Father Mohr?s words to music that will endure till the end of time.
Loves and God's Best,
Tora-chan, Nya! =^w^= heart
 Tora Yukino · Wed Dec 07, 2005 @ 10:02pm · 0 Comments |
