A postscript to 'Stille Nacht'
A week before Christmas Day, I posted the original German lyrics of 'Silent Night' along with historical tidbits about the carol, courtesy of Wikipedia. Little did I know that an email I was to delete sans opening several days later would contain a more personalized account -- penned by Fr. Bernard Heffernan -- of how the famous song came to be:
For 22 years I looked after the spiritual needs of senior citizen homes. Volunteers helped. Among them was Anna Cairnduf, a lady who hails from a mountain town in Austria. She's the grand niece of Father Joseph Mohr, the writer of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" which for a long time was ignored. Why?
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For 22 years I looked after the spiritual needs of senior citizen homes. Volunteers helped. Among them was Anna Cairnduf, a lady who hails from a mountain town in Austria. She's the grand niece of Father Joseph Mohr, the writer of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" which for a long time was ignored. Why?
Great music is expected from great cities and great Cathedrals but hardly from a poor, cold, drafty little mountain church, where a few days before Christmas in 1818, a hungry mouse chewed through the bellows of the old organ, silencing it. Oh no! No music for Christmas.
Read the story in full at LifeSite
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