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A Nativity play or Christmas pageant is a play which recounts the story of the Nativity of Jesus. It is usually performed at Christmas , the feast of the Nativity. For the Christian celebration of Christmas, the viewing of the Nativity play is one of the oldest Christmastime traditions, with the first reenactment of the Nativity of Jesus taking ...
The service usually consists of hymns about Christmas and readings from the gospels telling the Christmas story. Many candles are lit around the church and sometimes the congregation hold candles to see by. A carol service is the name for a Christmas church service. [1] In schools, services are held in the last week of the term.
A Christmas cantata or Nativity cantata is a cantata, music for voice or voices in several movements, for Christmas. The importance of the feast inspired many composers to write cantatas for the occasion, some designed to be performed in church services, others for concert or secular celebration.
So, press play and get into the Christmas spirit with this selection of religious Christmas songs. Related: 17 Traditional Christmas Symbols and Their Meanings 25 Religious Christmas Songs
CHRISTMAS 2023: Whacky scripts, winter bugs and badly behaved parents. Former teachers tell Katie Rosseinsky what goes on behind the scenes of the primary school nativity play
"The Friendly Beasts" is a traditional Christmas song about the gifts that a donkey, cow, sheep, camel, and dove give to Jesus at the Nativity. The song seems to have originated in 12th-century France, set to the melody of the Latin song "Orientis Partibus". [1]
A school is searching for a baby to play the part of Jesus in its Christmas nativity. ... Past nativity plays have featured live animals and one year, the Three Kings turned up on motorbikes.
The "Boar's Head Carol" is a macaronic 15th century [1] [2] English Christmas carol that describes serving a boar's head at a Yuletide feast. Of the several extant versions of the carol, the one most usually performed today is based on a version published in 1521 in Wynkyn de Worde 's Christmasse Carolles . [ 1 ]