Hands off our carols!
I am getting tired of Christmas. And it hasn’t even started yet. As I sat trying to enjoy a sandwich in Mahon Shopping Centre in mid-November, Christmas songs blared out to herald Santa’s arrival. In mid-November!
Now the land is blanketed with Christmas trees and those bleak blue lights, while Advent has hardly begun.
I can understand the importance of a mid-Winter festival to cheer the dark days. And I can see how big business needs the sales and uses cheery songs to boost same. (’Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ and ‘We Wish you a Merry Christmas’ are fine with me any day of the year!) But I can’t understand why they have to take our good Christian Christmas songs and blare them out as well.
It’s terrible to see Christmas fatigue in church the day after Christmas begins.
If only the shopping centres and the supermarkets would just stick to secular mid-Winter music and leave the religious songs to churches and homes and schools, where they belong….
Saturday, December 1st, 2007 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions, Uncategorized.
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Ann Says:
I don’t know if I would entirely agree with Fr. Bernard.
O.K., I’m sick too of the earlier every year renditions but is it not true to say that carols at least keep Christ in Christmas and when played in our shopping centres they are a reminder of what Christmas is really about.
I agree of course that it is terrible to see fatigue set in so early, and as for yesterday’s news all I can say is ‘ Hands off our cribs!’
December 8th, 2007 at 5:04 pm