Luke2:11  “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”

For my first attempt I give myself a solid B-.  Merry Christmas

“O Holy Night” (“Cantique de Noël“) is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem “Minuit, chrétiens” (Midnight, Christians) by Placide Cappeau (1808–1877), a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem.^{[citation needed ]} Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight,^[1] editor of Dwight’s Journal of Music, created a singing edition based on Cappeau’s French text in 1855. Another edition begins “O Holy Night, the stars their gleams prolonging.”^{[citation needed ]} In both the French original and in the two familiar English versions of the carol, the text reflects on the birth of Jesus and of mankind’s redemption.

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