I love this version of O Holy Night, because it reminds me of my sister who had a beautiful soprano voice and sang the solo in our church on Christmas Eve.
This is a comment on the YouTube video that moved me very much.
Whenever ‘fall on your knees’ is sung, I get the most amazing feeling of wanting – needing – to worship someone Higher than me. Its a natural thing, like breathing . It is within us all, whether we want it or not, this need to physically fall on our knees before our Creator God. I feel such joy…like I am going to my real home….heaven, where I will join singing with the multitude of angels. All l is well with the world, because we have a real living Saviour. No matter the choir, the denomination, no matter the belief, we are singing combined praise. I believe in Jesus, and I worship Him. Thank you Lord for saving me.
Soprano: Emer Barry
Harpist: Aisling Ennis
Violinist: Mary McCague
Choir: Palestrina Boys Choir and Carlow Choral Society
Accompanied by The Prague Filmharmonic Orchestra
A Celtic version of O Holy Night arranged and performed by Irish Classical Crossover group Affinití in aid of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
Stella's Place 
Once, when I was in church, and passionately praying for a certain person, I felt the urging that I must kneel for this prayer. But I hadn’t been able to kneel for years, only scoot forward due to severe knee pain.
Somehow, I knew in that instant that I was being told to kneel, and could, for as long as my prayer lasted, and then I’d not be able to again.
And so it was, even after my knee replacements, there is still pain in kneeling, not an unusual thing.
Ah, but the hope I was given. I believe that my prayer will be answered someday, and my guardian angel helped me in my time of prayer.
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I’m listening to the Catechism in a Year, read by a wonderful priest, Father Mike Schmitz. His reflections are so good.
One day last week he compared how we pray for our wants and supplications versus how we praise God and thank him.
For the first, we put our heart into it, go back to God again and again, we cry out to him with all that we have.
And how do we praise and thank him? Not quite so enthusiastically for most of us, I’m ashamed to say.
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