It’s Time for Christmas Carols… (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ --
“Christmas carols, Christmas carols,
It’s time for Christmas carols,
The ice lays there
Like mirrors everywhere…”
When we say Christmas, we say no doubt and carol, because carols cannot exist without Christmas and Jesus Christ's Birth that they herald.
Each householder from village must meet the group of carol singers. No home should remain without carol singers, no matter how bad it would be the time. It is believed that when it will no longer heard Christmas carols, on Earth there will come out devils and will dominate the world.
But what are actually carols and where they appeared from? A carol is an inestimable spiritual dowry that we inherit from our ancestors. It is holy because it transmits a heavenly message, a news message from God. But the carol is also good because this news is meant to serve life, to bring so much good in the world and between people. In old times, carols, our traditions and customs of Christmas were a real school of moral virtues, solidifying the feelings of understanding.
Carol singing is an ancient custom. The first carol singers were shepherds who came to the illuminated cave where he was born the Infant Jesus, enjoying this heavenly sign and the voice of angels heralded in the city of Bethlehem the miracle they were witnesses.
Few people in the world have accompanied the miracle of coming of the God Son with a so warm and tender hug and have expressed it so rich in artistic shapes, as did the Romanian people.
As an integral part of religious folklore, carols present an inestimable value by their origin and especially by their age. They represent our ancestral song and one of the oldest forms of expressions of folklore and religion.
The groups of carol singers are the groups of angels who are heralding on Christmas Eve the birth of Jesus Christ.
In Christmas carols, the simplicity, ease and fluency of popular verse expresses a great wealth of ideas, in a form of artistic beauties.
Romanian tradition divides carols into two large groups: religious and laic, but the line separating these two groups is so fragile that often it is not perceived. One thing is clear, the Christmas carol is the song of the soul that is looking for the heart of those who receive it unmistakably through the entire being.
Religious carols are inspired by Scripture and Sacred Tradition, and through their lyrics filled with faith there is understood the deep meanings of an authentic religious experience, based on the testimony of unshakable faith.
The Christmas carol singers sing them with the faith in a better world, with the blessing of the Lord that came between us "to be born and grow, and save us".
Let meet Christmas carols in our homes and in our souls.
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