Mannheim Steamroller - Veni Veni (O Come O Come Emanuel) [Audio]

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  • Music video by Mannheim Steamroller performing Veni Veni (O Come O Come Emanuel) [Audio]. (C) 2015 American Gramaphone
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  • @underthesun65
    @underthesun65 4 роки тому +75

    This is my favorite version of Veni Veni Emanuel. I am so humbled. Praise to the Lord...Father, Son and Holy Ghost forever.

  • @kmath50
    @kmath50 3 роки тому +147

    My most favorite version of this song. These guys changed Christmas music forever when the released their first album back in 1984. I really like that this is sung in Latin.

    • @allenjones3130
      @allenjones3130 2 роки тому +5

      You should check out MS's "The Christmas Angel", with narration by Chip and the late, great Dame Olivia Newton-John.

    • @spydermama9513
      @spydermama9513 2 роки тому +3

      Same!

    • @RobertJones-ux6nc
      @RobertJones-ux6nc 2 роки тому +12

      The way it was originally written as a chant for monks. My favorite also
      💖🙏✌🎄

    • @alexispehrson4952
      @alexispehrson4952 2 роки тому +6

      My most favoritest as well!

    • @mikkikas6821
      @mikkikas6821 Рік тому +7

      AMEN TO THAT!! My MOST FAVORITE of all Christmas music. FRESH AIRE! This version is SOOOO perfect that as a classical guitarist and singer I ABSOLUTELY HAD to do this Chip Davis rendition or not at all!!❤❤ I'm SO with you on this!! It just doesn't get any better, EVER!!❤❤😊

  • @StASiA70
    @StASiA70 2 роки тому +44

    My absolute favorite version of this song. Makes me feel so close to our Creator.

    • @Timothycpollock
      @Timothycpollock 2 роки тому +1

      I agree with you.

    • @amyv8416
      @amyv8416 Місяць тому

      It's mine also, and I don't believe in any of the gods.

  • @do9138
    @do9138 4 роки тому +84

    Most beautiful rendition of this wonderful carol I've ever heard. Always brings tears to my eyes.

    • @saraklaren
      @saraklaren 3 роки тому +2

      Enya's version was beautiful as well, but this is my favorite.

    • @andrewpetik2034
      @andrewpetik2034 3 роки тому +5

      My father told me that it reminded him of his days in Roman Catholic Seminary (he was studying for the priesthood when he met my mother, the sister of a fellow seminarian).
      This version brought tears to my eyes when I first heard it......it does even more so now that both of my parents have passed away.

    • @Marochka
      @Marochka 2 місяці тому

      It is like being there. In the candlelight. In the sanctuary within the castle.

  • @aaromotivestudio3869
    @aaromotivestudio3869 Рік тому +13

    I think I’d listen to this even outside of the Christmas season

  • @nickdamato1284
    @nickdamato1284 6 років тому +57

    Praise the Lord Jesus Christ forever .Amen.

    • @DavidMarchand-n5b
      @DavidMarchand-n5b 6 днів тому +1

      Brings you back to MedeviL times🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻✝️💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌

  • @jolene3863
    @jolene3863 Місяць тому +1

    This arrangement always brings baxk the sense of awe, joy, and peace that I felt so keenly in the Mass when I was a kid. I have more deeply delved into my faith over the years, and feel God's presence more than ever.

    • @DavidMarchand-n5b
      @DavidMarchand-n5b 6 днів тому +1

      Beautiful. He is with us ALWAYS🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻✝️❣️💌💌💌💌🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻AMEN🙏🏻

  • @jonathanfrancesco3305
    @jonathanfrancesco3305 4 роки тому +52

    This is an example of why MS got so hugely popular, a piece of music that absolutelty transcends. It's nostalgia for the past and longing for the future at the same time.

    • @lurannharmon5981
      @lurannharmon5981 2 роки тому +6

      You hit the nail on the head, Jonathan.

    • @DavidMarchand-n5b
      @DavidMarchand-n5b 2 місяці тому +1

      Sang this song back in the 50s at CathoLic Grade school never forget simply put CeLestiaL an Inspiring🙏🏻💌✝️🙏🏻

    • @DavidMarchand-n5b
      @DavidMarchand-n5b 2 місяці тому

      With out a DOUBT✝️✝️🙏🏻🙏🏻✝️✝️💌💌

  • @debbiemetke5938
    @debbiemetke5938 6 років тому +76

    Gives me chills. It calmed me down in a car crash once and gave me peace.

    • @GisherJohn24
      @GisherJohn24 4 роки тому +3

      God bless you my child

    • @debbiemetke5938
      @debbiemetke5938 3 роки тому +3

      @@cailynnandhayleigh1924 Wow. I hope you're getting over the terror. :-(

    • @gabilenge6883
      @gabilenge6883 3 роки тому +1

      Alles Gute für dich.

    • @TheDougnlis
      @TheDougnlis 3 роки тому

      Wow... Glad it helped you calm down, sorry to hear you go through that terror. Merry Christmas!!

    • @ChonkyCat9000
      @ChonkyCat9000 2 роки тому +1

      This song also calms me down no matter what crisis I get into

  • @MatthewPhillips-lb6xu
    @MatthewPhillips-lb6xu 2 місяці тому +5

    Not a religious person but even I am moved by this haunting rendition.

  • @andrewpetik2034
    @andrewpetik2034 3 роки тому +26

    My father told me that it reminded him of his days in Roman Catholic Seminary (he was studying for the priesthood when he met my mother, the sister of a fellow seminarian).
    This version brought tears to my eyes when I first heard it......it does even more so now that both of my parents have passed away.

    • @greenwich1754
      @greenwich1754 2 роки тому +2

      SO what you are saying is that your father went from the state of celibacy to celebrating!

  • @JamesWhitehead-o4q
    @JamesWhitehead-o4q Місяць тому +9

    This is a beautiful song, I never get tired of this song.

    • @tonys8613
      @tonys8613 Місяць тому +1

      Best version ever. Merry Christmas Everyone!

  • @mikeveis3577
    @mikeveis3577 Рік тому +9

    This is so beautiful, hearing O Come O Come Emmanuel sung in Latin.

  • @bobbymatthew4471
    @bobbymatthew4471 6 років тому +61

    Absolutely stunning!! I cried the first time i heard this masterpiece, and still brings tears...

    • @buchsm1
      @buchsm1 4 роки тому +2

      Same here

    • @jacquelinesimone8880
      @jacquelinesimone8880 3 роки тому +2

      Me too !

    • @paulfolmsbee4210
      @paulfolmsbee4210 3 роки тому +2

      DITTO!

    • @lizmarch4000
      @lizmarch4000 3 роки тому +2

      Bobby, same.

    • @andrewpetik2034
      @andrewpetik2034 3 роки тому +2

      My father told me that it reminded him of his days in Roman Catholic Seminary (he was studying for the priesthood when he met my mother, the sister of a fellow seminarian).
      This version brought tears to my eyes when I first heard it......it does even more so now that both of my parents have passed away.

  • @dpeders2002
    @dpeders2002 Рік тому +5

    One can almost see the French monks in the Notre Dame cathedral at worship. Brilliant version.

    • @kaydee4296
      @kaydee4296 2 місяці тому

      And it's now just being re-opened as the French government is in collapse. Precarious times we are in.

  • @dangabor8585
    @dangabor8585 Місяць тому +7

    Praise Our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • @bengarcia7284
    @bengarcia7284 Рік тому +10

    I love listening to this beautiful composition every night during December.

  • @CDForney
    @CDForney 2 роки тому +21

    I always picture myself in an ancient medieval church, back when it was newly built, listening to monks singing this song 🎶

    • @ChonkyCat9000
      @ChonkyCat9000 Рік тому +3

      I feel like I’m in God’s Kingdom of Heaven when I hear this song or any music similar to this

  • @marceloantoniohernandezpin6145

    It sounds as if it had been made in heaven. 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

  • @yve10E
    @yve10E 7 років тому +88

    My favourite Mannheim Steamroller music, never fails to give me the goose bumps , absolutely beautiful.

    • @burlingtonbill1
      @burlingtonbill1 4 роки тому +1

      ABSOLUTELY !

    • @Johndale0
      @Johndale0 4 роки тому +3

      You bet. We sang this is choirs in church and school, but it sure never sounded like THIS!

    • @debraevans3398
      @debraevans3398 3 роки тому +1

      This is such a beautiful rendition of this song, gives me chills when I hear it

  • @jeromehorn
    @jeromehorn 4 роки тому +17

    This version of Veni Veni Emmanuel is definetely the most beautiful I´ve ever heard!!

  • @charlesmangum3108
    @charlesmangum3108 6 років тому +34

    One day I shall see Emanuel.

  • @deniselaray4157
    @deniselaray4157 5 років тому +24

    😭😍🥰this song always brings a longing for our Lord...its so beautiful and glorious to his name. Amen 🙏🏼

  • @ChonkyCat9000
    @ChonkyCat9000 9 років тому +89

    Best song by Mannheim Steamroller ever!!!

  • @williammoore6010
    @williammoore6010 10 місяців тому +3

    This is the song we sing on the first Sunday f Advent to remnd us of the coming of the Lord.

  • @billpaparelli8058
    @billpaparelli8058 5 років тому +26

    I think this IS the BEST version ever! LOVE IT! Brings back so many memories.

  • @DouglasMBingham
    @DouglasMBingham Рік тому +4

    Hearing this incredible version of O Come Emmanuel , reminds me of a night in Boston when I stopped in an old Catholic Church where Monks still chanted in Latin , it was a mystical experience

  • @Platyfurmany
    @Platyfurmany 6 років тому +50

    Chip Davis's Veni Veni Emmanuel, along with his Stille Nacht are my two absolute favorite Christmas songs! These are among the few songs or works of music which produce in me a frisson even into the depths of my soul. Thank you, Chip, for blessing us with these as well as the rest of your renditions of Christmas music, which have no parallel.

    • @ruthmcpherson2311
      @ruthmcpherson2311 6 років тому +7

      I agree My two favorites as well

    • @PamelaAMann
      @PamelaAMann 5 років тому +8

      I feel the same way pretty much about these same 2 songs. I will listen to the Stille Nacht year round at times when I need to reach a certain place of inner calm and stillness.

    • @teresapappas9773
      @teresapappas9773 5 років тому +3

      Perfectly said!

    • @wmpetroff2307
      @wmpetroff2307 4 роки тому +2

      Another very touching piece is by The Supremes 'Born of Mary" .

    • @michaelrex6948
      @michaelrex6948 4 роки тому +2

      Veni isn't a Christmas song, though - it's Advent.

  • @mikewolf417
    @mikewolf417 5 років тому +17

    This song has been touched by God. Still Nacht is another one. Thank you God for Your Son and thank you for this beautiful music Chip......Merry Christmas Everyone!

  • @kendallfowler5532
    @kendallfowler5532 Рік тому +6

    My parents had Manheim Steamroller CDs...I grew up listening to them during the Christmas season. This album was a favorite. Latin is such a beautiful language! Hayley from Celtic Woman did a breathtaking cover of this song.

  • @franksteinmetz6674
    @franksteinmetz6674 2 роки тому +7

    Still in the best after all these years and years to come.

  • @Aramanth
    @Aramanth 5 років тому +32

    *Best Version of this Song*
    They captured the spirit and the history of this song so well!
    The instrumental part with the vocalise is sublime! ⭐
    You can feel the ancient origins of this song through this recording!

  • @jamescrooks1786
    @jamescrooks1786 4 роки тому +15

    My favorite from Mannheim Steamroller.

    • @jenniferalbers3192
      @jenniferalbers3192 3 роки тому +1

      Mine too, which is say alot cause they did so many great Christmas covers - John

  • @williammoore6010
    @williammoore6010 6 місяців тому +2

    Although it's just July, i just stumbled on this awesome Christmas carol. This is traditionally sung at rhe beginning of Advent in the Roman Catholic church in prepearation for the nativity of the Lord. Tuyly awe inspiring and in Latin, the original language this song was chanted in, amazing.
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    • @DavidMarchand-n5b
      @DavidMarchand-n5b 2 місяці тому +1

      So very BeautifuL I want to get on my knees. And Pray too our Creator tears streaming down my face🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✝️✝️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

  • @wmpetroff2307
    @wmpetroff2307 Рік тому +4

    The gorgeous arrangement is utterly magnificent!! I imagine a monastery during the medieval periods. Thank You to the brilliant Talents at Mannheim Steamroller and Chip Davis.

  • @GSmashGaming
    @GSmashGaming Рік тому +3

    This is personally my favorite version. Mannheim steamroller is such a wonderful ensemble. I especially love their orchestrated stuff they do on the album. Very reminiscent of medieval times. May the good Lord bless All who are in the comment section . And may he also bless your family The merriest of Christmases to all.

  • @burlingtonbill1
    @burlingtonbill1 8 років тому +49

    So delicate, so perfect. This earlier MS Christmas music (1st two albums) was absolutely tops - some of the best music EVER made !!!

    • @carltonhammock795
      @carltonhammock795 4 роки тому +4

      This song makes me think of the people I've known and loved that have gone before me.
      It makes me think of the
      Father in Heaven, my savior Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit that resides within my soul.
      It makes me happy and it brings tears of joy whenever I hear it.
      My thanks to whoever reads this message.
      Carlton Hammock

  • @andrebissonnette3267
    @andrebissonnette3267 7 років тому +34

    Music for the souls I never heard a music like this one before....
    This reaches me in so many ways
    My being, my completon so far..it brings me a feeling of peace, SERENITY tears of joy....

  • @StevenJRoosa
    @StevenJRoosa 3 роки тому +11

    Best version I've ever heard!...🎶 It almost paralyzes you.

  • @menslady125eif2590
    @menslady125eif2590 5 років тому +36

    And now we sing this in longing for the return of Christ.

    • @gracederrick7990
      @gracederrick7990 2 роки тому

      So is this what the song means? Longing for God's return?

  • @JamesWhitehead-o4q
    @JamesWhitehead-o4q Рік тому +3

    This is a beautiful song regardless what month it is.

  • @justcallmesando
    @justcallmesando 3 роки тому +10

    This song reminds me of some of the happiest moments in my life. I got into this Christmas play when I was in high school and the guy who chose the music for the play chose Mannheim Steamroller first two albums for the score. This one got straight into my head since the first time specially when the strings arise. I was playing a monk at the play and we had this sublime and powerful moment of revelation with this song playing in the back. Then the play came to an end with everyone cheering up and wishing everyone else a merry Christmas and the course ended that day as well so we went on vacation to celebrate the holidays. It will always be a part of me and it will always touch my heart.

  • @marendenison3550
    @marendenison3550 6 років тому +82

    Veni veni Emmanuel Oh come, oh come, Immanuel
    captivum solve Israel to free captive Israel
    qui gemit in exsilio who cries in exile,
    privatus Dei Filio deprived of the Son of God.
    Veni veni O Oriens Come, come, East (star)
    solare nos adveniens console us with your arrival,
    noctis depelle nebulas drive away the dark clouds of night
    dirasque mortis tenebras the gloomy darkness of death.
    Veni veni Adonai Come, come, Lord
    qui populo in Sinai who, to the people on Sinai,
    legem dedisti vertice He gave the law
    in maiestate gloriae in glorious majesty.
    Gaude! Gaude! Emmanuel Rejoice, rejoice: Immanuel
    nascetur pro te Israel is born for you, Israel.

    • @zimrah4837
      @zimrah4837 6 років тому +5

      Thank you for the words. So beautiful. Glory to God for ever

    • @erikagaither633
      @erikagaither633 4 роки тому +1

      Thank youb

    • @thediamondlord478
      @thediamondlord478 4 роки тому +3

      RIP to mobile users who are having trouble reading this due to how UA-cam on mobile works.

  • @johndoe5816
    @johndoe5816 3 роки тому +5

    I’ve listened to this song every single year since 1997 (when I first heard it in the 6th grade). I remember listening to it for the first time next to a Christmas tree at night after everyone was asleep. Never thought it’d be a tradition I’d hold.

  • @coralroper6876
    @coralroper6876 7 років тому +35

    One of my favorite Christmas songs

  • @silva147708
    @silva147708 5 років тому +15

    Words can't describe how much I love this song, especially this version! ❤️❤️

  • @thomas7johns
    @thomas7johns 6 років тому +15

    Brings tears to my eyes...

  • @leejohnson6057
    @leejohnson6057 Рік тому +3

    This song helps me go to sleep 😴

  • @billmcsweeney9701
    @billmcsweeney9701 Рік тому +2

    Any time of year is a Great time to hear A Fresh Aire Christmas.

  • @Greg-et2dp
    @Greg-et2dp Рік тому +6

    Mannheim steamroller your Christmas 🎄 music is uplifting and awesome 🎄 👌 👏 👍 ❤❤

  • @RobertJones-ux6nc
    @RobertJones-ux6nc 2 роки тому +5

    I love listening to all their music but this is my all time favorite.

  • @SchwererGustavThe800mm
    @SchwererGustavThe800mm 8 місяців тому +2

    Mannheim and the boys:
    *drop this absolute BANGER*
    *refuses to elaborate*
    *leaves*

  • @NancyKuykendall
    @NancyKuykendall 4 роки тому +4

    The most beautiful rendition ever. I listen every year and cry every time. I perform this on my soprano every Christmas. It’s beautiful on the recorder.

  • @sierratrilogy
    @sierratrilogy 5 років тому +7

    This is the only way I can sing this carol. Drives my family and those around me nuts during the holidays, because I dont know the words in English. I cant help it that I learned to sing this carol by listening to Mannheim Steamroller :-)

  • @billmcsweeney9701
    @billmcsweeney9701 3 роки тому +4

    Chip Davis is incredible. These renditions are All so beautiful, each in it's own way. If "Veni Veni" doesn't just throw you into the bushes nothing will. Listening to "The Little Drummer Boy" I imagine an orchestra of Santa's helpers with toy soldiers playing. "O Holy Night" Greatest rendition ever? Then you're challenging Michael Crawford. It's SO close. How absolutely beautiful, before, now and always is "Still Still Still". And don't forget Chip's own "Traditions of Christmas" So pretty.

  • @andrebissonnette4394
    @andrebissonnette4394 4 роки тому +4

    It is this time of the year again when I fill up myself with this beautiful and so magic sounds of inner self, serenity, calm and tranquility. If this is heaven...... well It is possible to be in heaven even on earth.

  • @celticbabs3105
    @celticbabs3105 Рік тому +4

    MY FAVORITE

  • @pravdavitezi
    @pravdavitezi 3 роки тому +3

    The Picardy third at the end makes it perfect!

  • @yvonnecamacho9773
    @yvonnecamacho9773 5 років тому +3

    Latin, the Roman language spoken around the time of Jesus’s birth.. how appropriate and beautiful.

  • @williamjones9920
    @williamjones9920 8 місяців тому +1

    Great album

  • @DavidMarchand-n5b
    @DavidMarchand-n5b 2 місяці тому +4

    Most BeautifuL. Rendition🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻💌✝️✝️✝️🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @stevesawyer6315
    @stevesawyer6315 Рік тому +3

    How fitting for times such as these.

  • @liewgorgeous
    @liewgorgeous Рік тому +1

    So sweet music😊

  • @OrbitFallenAngel
    @OrbitFallenAngel 5 років тому +5

    Truly beautiful and blissful and the music calms me...its so ethereal...
    The best music I've ever heard!

  • @buchsm1
    @buchsm1 4 роки тому +6

    Chills. Just angelic and moving

  • @andrebissonnette4394
    @andrebissonnette4394 5 років тому +7

    Simply touching....reaching your soul in it`s deepest most awakening.

  • @ryleelott1742
    @ryleelott1742 5 років тому +7

    I played this in band my eighth grade year and the beginning was a bassoon solo, and at 0:45 was when the whole band came in. One of my top 10 pieces ever for sure.

    • @cuerampart2886
      @cuerampart2886 5 років тому +1

      must've been a special moment

    • @DavidMarchand-n5b
      @DavidMarchand-n5b 2 місяці тому +1

      Simply music from HEAVEN✝️✝️🙏🏻✝️✝️

  • @kartikeypatel7426
    @kartikeypatel7426 2 роки тому +1

    Well information. Good show. Well information. Good show.

  • @kellyjohnson9930
    @kellyjohnson9930 2 роки тому +2

    My Mom’s and my favorite Christmas song❄️

  • @teresapappas9773
    @teresapappas9773 5 років тому +3

    Such an amazing and beautiful song! It touches my very soul somehow. Thank you!

  • @paulwojcik6339
    @paulwojcik6339 Рік тому +3

    True sacred music!

  • @johnspeed790
    @johnspeed790 6 років тому +10

    A thousand years ago & a thousand years from now...

  • @zimrah4837
    @zimrah4837 6 років тому +8

    I love this song. It is my faviorte.

  • @rossam955
    @rossam955 8 років тому +44

    Beautiful like if it was made in Heaven

    • @deniselaray4157
      @deniselaray4157 5 років тому +2

      Rossana V.A glory be his name, 🙏🏼

  • @lydialangfordjoiner765
    @lydialangfordjoiner765 Місяць тому

    Ohhh, thank you for sharing this with us.

  • @jacquelinenguyen759
    @jacquelinenguyen759 3 роки тому +4

    HEAVENLY SUBLIME MUSIC.

  • @danbytp
    @danbytp 5 років тому +5

    Veni Veni Adonai!

  • @kittyplays2324
    @kittyplays2324 5 років тому +6

    I'm playing this song in orchestra, veni veni Emanuel

  • @marion531
    @marion531 6 років тому +14

    1:45 - 2:53 is my favorite part of this song

    • @MarkAGroh
      @MarkAGroh 6 років тому +2

      yes, so moving, very beautiful....

    • @ChucksterJax
      @ChucksterJax 5 років тому +2

      Yes, the delicate sound of the recorders and hammered dulcimer. Very beautiful arrangement.

    • @burlingtonbill1
      @burlingtonbill1 4 роки тому +1

      YES, angelic, and way too short !

    • @cindysavage265
      @cindysavage265 4 роки тому

      Yes, I love when the sopranos come in. They sound angelic.

  • @seymourbuttz6419
    @seymourbuttz6419 4 роки тому +6

    The opening chorus always makes me think of the scene from monty python and the holy grail with the priests who are walking down the street chanting and whacking themselves with planks

  • @menslady125eif2590
    @menslady125eif2590 7 років тому +8

    So beautiful!

  • @christianmonturanoii6539
    @christianmonturanoii6539 4 роки тому +3

    I really love this song this might be my favorite on the album and of their xmas songs or one of them when i was little it was always hark hark and carol of the bells on this album but this is beautiful

  • @samatbayer
    @samatbayer 6 років тому +3

    I love this song. I added to my Light O Rama system.

  • @crochetcatcrafty
    @crochetcatcrafty 3 роки тому +3

    Just lovely!

    • @pammiestewart1419
      @pammiestewart1419 2 роки тому

      All of your comments are the results of OUR BEATIFUL
      GOD TOUCHING OUR HEARTS 💕 AND TOUCHING OUR INNER MOST DESIRE FOR HIS PEACE

  • @cliff1590
    @cliff1590 3 роки тому +3

    Great sounds never enough

  • @Videogameboy1989
    @Videogameboy1989 5 років тому +4

    Sometimes, when I hear this song, this version at least, I imagine a scene from Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, where Ebenezer Scrooge is leaving his counting house late at night and walking towards his house.

  • @cailynnandhayleigh1924
    @cailynnandhayleigh1924 3 роки тому +3

    This song is comforting now ..... I was attacked by Satan or a demon in my sleep I had a spiritual warfare dream

  • @AndyeAndrew-pr9ks
    @AndyeAndrew-pr9ks Рік тому +3

    Israel are the chosen.

  • @darlenelavelle6206
    @darlenelavelle6206 5 років тому +5

    Just beautiful.

  • @1879dessa
    @1879dessa 6 років тому +14

    Every time I hear this song it reminds me of a Christmas Eve many years ago. I was listening to this when I got the call. It evokes a sadness when I hear it today. I wrote this afterwards...
    “Silent Night, Unholy Night”
    Late one evening, while cold and crisp
    Listening to carols played with a fife
    Anticipating the arrival of ‘Ol St. Nick
    While my partner was in a fight for his life
    A routine stop on a quiet street
    Where rooftops were lit with lights
    It was unexpected and very surreal
    As the mood quickly turned to fright
    It was if “I” were calling for this help
    For these numbers have always been mine
    The shots rang out and the radio squawked
    “I need back-up, 259!!!”
    A broadcast followed as officers responded
    To a voice that was labored, but clear
    Although shot 4 times, he got it out
    A description for all to hear
    A sea of blue converged on the scene
    Changing Chaos to complete control
    Each officer taking on multiple tasks
    Each officer knowing his role
    Our Brothers-in-Red quickly made the call
    And like Angels, they swooped him away
    They too faced chaos and triaged the scene
    They were ready for days like today.
    By the Grace of God, he pulled through
    And this day, I will never forget
    Prayers were answered for both of these men
    As the T.A.C.T Unit neutralized the threat
    *This was a very hard Christmas (and every Christmas since). I had ridden as car “259” for a while. I fractured my femur during a foot chase (of an Auto thief) just a few weeks before this night. My friend was pulled from his ward and put in my car (259). To hear the broadcast of this night; it is if they were calling my name. Each year, I experience a guilt. A guilt from me not being there. A guilt from being “thankful” I wasn’t there.
    In the end, the suspect got what he deserved; a bullet with his name on it. Not to sound insensitive, but my friend is reminded daily of this night. He has had a long road of recovery and has handled it very well. This scenario plays in my mind repeatedly. And, for all the officers on the scene that Christmas Eve, I’m sure they can recount each step of that night.
    As frightening/scary/gruesome as this night was, I didn’t want to be detailed with my descriptions. This short write is NOT about the story, as much as it is about what our “First Responders” go through day in/day out. While everyone is nestled in bed anticipating the arrival of Santa, our responders are keeping evil at bay. They are providing medical help for those in need 24/7.
    Please keep our police/fire across this nation in your prayers. God Bless...

    • @aleciabjorlie3103
      @aleciabjorlie3103 6 років тому +1

      Alan Chaudoin .... God Bless you and thank you for your service. I am glad the officer survived. Crime doesn’t take a break. My grandfather was a policeman. I am proud to say.
      🙏

    • @cvmetalworks4594
      @cvmetalworks4594 5 років тому +1

      Alan Chaudoin, thank you for your service. But feel not guilty about what happened. God is sovereign over all the earth, and that was no accident, or "happenstance." Praise God he survived, but it was no fault of yours, brother.

    • @menslady125eif2590
      @menslady125eif2590 5 років тому +1

      Hugs for you!

    • @WidowOfWindsor
      @WidowOfWindsor 5 років тому +1

      Alan, God's timing is beyond our understanding. Prayers for you... peace beyond understanding, my friend.

  • @nedlee3000
    @nedlee3000 5 років тому +6

    Beautiful ! Hope Jesus returns soon!
    The "delusion" promised in promised in
    2 Thessalonian 2
    :11
    [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
    that they should believe a lie:
    is happening now!

  • @prism8289
    @prism8289 3 роки тому +3

    This I think is the most beautiful music ever composed. If you love it too, I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend the versions my the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.and especially the instrumental by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Glorious Sounds of Christmas).

  • @FlamingCockatiel
    @FlamingCockatiel 4 роки тому +2

    Lovely setting that fits the words. I read the little blurb in the CD booklet how Chip Davis thought he was going to do an innovative setting by doing it this way, only to find it wasn't quite that way.

  • @sloansink9989
    @sloansink9989 6 років тому +5

    I think you don’t need to be religious to love this song.

    • @cvmetalworks4594
      @cvmetalworks4594 5 років тому +2

      No doubt. But if you love the Lord, it's even better.

  • @aaromotivestudio3869
    @aaromotivestudio3869 Рік тому +2

    It sounds so liturgical

  • @knightwatchman
    @knightwatchman Рік тому +1

    More cow bell !

  • @trishwilliams6301
    @trishwilliams6301 5 років тому +3

    Awesome!

  • @robertcooke4989
    @robertcooke4989 Місяць тому +1

    Loved the Latin mass

  • @adamromero
    @adamromero 8 років тому +40

    feel like im in a monastary

    • @ricard1245
      @ricard1245 7 років тому +6

      Actually, it was originally a monastic song.

    • @andrebissonnette3267
      @andrebissonnette3267 6 років тому +2

      true

    • @MarkAGroh
      @MarkAGroh 6 років тому +1

      when I attend a monastery to listen to nothing, this is what I want to hear.....

    • @andrewpetik2034
      @andrewpetik2034 5 років тому +2

      My father nearly cried, and I cried with him, every Christmas Season as the CD player came around to this song.....him remembering his time in a monastery when he was studying to be a Catholic priest before he met my mother....me because it is beautiful ....

  • @jhusmc96
    @jhusmc96 4 роки тому +1

    Love to all...